Shorthand for if-else statement

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Using the ternary :? operator [spec].

var hasName = (name === 'true') ? 'Y' :'N';

The ternary operator lets us write shorthand if..else statements exactly like you want.

It looks like:

(name === 'true') – our condition

? – the ternary operator itself

'Y' – the result if the condition evaluates to true

'N' – the result if the condition evaluates to false

So in short (question)?(result if true):(result is false) , as you can see – it returns the value of the expression so we can simply assign it to a variable just like in the example above.

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