What the following statement means and what will b the output??

Question

int x=5;
x= ! (x>8)?1:0;
System.out.println (x);

Answer 1

1

! means negation, i.e, !(true) == false.

Ternary operator is used for writing a simple if-else statement on a single line. It's syntax is:

condition ? value_if_true : value_if_false;

You can write it in a traditional if-else block as:

if (condition) {
// code if condition was true
} else {
// handle false case
}

As x = 5, x > 8 evaluates to false and !(false) == true. So,
x = true ? 1 : 0;
evaluates to x = 1.

Answer 2

Meaning:
1) int x=5;
It creates an int variable called x. Its value is 5

2) x=! (x>8)?1:0;
It checks if x value is not greater than 8 (x value is 5), so the returned value is 1 (because of result is true: x is not greater than 8) and then assigns 1 to x

3) System.out.println (x);
It prints x

Output:
1

Remember:
(condition)?statementIfTrue:statementIfFalse;

is equivalent to:

if (condition){
statementIfTrue;
}
else {
statementIfFalse;
}

Answer 3

as x=5 therefore (x>8)==false hence
!(x>8)==true here the result will be 1
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