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Actionscript Snippets: Ternary Operator in Flash

Snippet Name: Ternary Operator
Submitted By: Mark
Description: This is a very quick way of creating conditional statements. Especially useful when you need to make a lot of conditional statements that make up much of your code.

Snippet

// long version
if (age>17) {
 
category = "Adult";
} else {
category = "Underage";
 
}
category = age>17 ? "Adult" : "Underage";
// another use
amountOfGuests = 1;
pluralOrNot = amountOfGuests>1 ? "s" : "";
trace("You have "+amountOfGuests+" guest" + pluralOrNot);
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