What does this statement do?

Question

X=3, y=0;
sout(++x > 4|| y-- > 0 ? ++y : --x);

Answer 1

Karthik Reddy Thotamgari

?: is known as ternary operator. It's a shortcut of if else statement.

expression ? statement1 : statement2

if expression = true then statement1 will execute otherwise statement2 will execute.

Here x = 3
++x = 4
x = 4

y = 0
y-- = 0
y = -1

So here

(4 > 4 || 0 > 0) is false so after colon --x will print but we have x = 4 because of ++x so here --x will be 3