Ternary Operator

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Ternary Operator

The Java programming language supports one ternary operator--the ?: operator. This operator is a conditional operator and is short-hand for an if-else statement:
op1 ? op2 : op3
The ?: operator returns op2 if op1 is true or returns op3 if op1 is false.

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