0 The Conditiona operator in C

C ternary operator is sometimes called conditional operator or ternary operator because it is a shorthand of combination of the if-else and return statement and has three operands. The syntax of C ternary operator is as follows:

 Syntax:

condition ? expression 1 : expression 2

C first evaluates the condition. Based on the return value of the condition the second or third operand is evaluated:

• If the condition is evaluated to true (1), only the second operand (expresion 1) is evaluated. Then the operator return the value of the expression 1.
• If the condtion is evaluated to false (0), only the third operand (expression 2) is evaluated. The value of the expression 2 is returned.

Example:

/*Demonstration of Conditional Operator */

#include<stdio.h>

int main()

{

 int i,j,big;

printf("Enter values of i and j\n");

scanf("%d%d",&i&j);

big=(i>j)?i:j;

printf("Bigger number is %d",big);

return 0;

}