Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Objective C Conditional Operator (x ? y : z)

In any programming language we go with writing bunch of ifs else ifs and else statement if there are bunch of conditions in a scenario.


         if(case1){
         }
         else if(case1){
         }
         else(case1){

         }


In these situations we can go with a switch statement also. 


        switch (country)
         {
            case India:
                break;

            case USA:
                break;

            case China:     
                break;    
      
            default:                

         }



But, what if we have only two conditions for a scenario like shown below.

We have an integer variable.


         
int val = 10;


I just want to check whether it is an even one or an odd one. To check this we can go for if statements also as shown below.


         
if(val %2 == 0){

               // Even number
         }

         else{

               // Odd number
         }  


Instead of above style, We can use conditional operator to make it a single line as shown below.


         
BOOL even = (val %2 == 0) ? YES : NO


If the condition is success, even will have YES value. If not a NO value.

In these cases, this operator is simple and handy and readable. Isn't it?


Hope this post is useful. Feel free to comment in case of any queries.

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