On 8 Okt., 16:09, "gwoodho...@gmail.com" <gwoodho...@gmail.com> wrote:

The technical term for that is a ternary operator. The expression
following the '?' is the one that gets evaluated if the boolean
expression before the '?' is evaluated to true, otherwise the
expression behind the ':' is evaluated.

There are so many basic sources for stuff like that. Even
comp.lang.java.help is better than this group. Google is your friend.

Karsten

That's a conditional expression, not a statement. It uses the
conditional operator (?:) , often called the ternery operator.

/gordon

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Expressions.

The operator ?: is the "conditional", or "ternary" [1], operator.  The part
before the question mark is the boolean condition, then the true part comes
after the question mark, and the false part after the colon.

Had you considered looking to the tutorials or JLS for this?
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/expressions.html#15.25>
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/index.html>
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/op2.html>

[1] "Ternary" really means "three-part" operator, as opposed to "binary" or
"two-part" operator, but since ?: is the only such operator in Java and C.*
the term has stuck.

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 07:09:14 -0700, "gwoodhouse@gmail.com"
<gwoodhouse@gmail.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who
said :

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/ternaryoperator.html