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What is an elvis operator?

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I have heard so much about this operator but didn't know the best use cases.

posted Sep 9, 2017 by Shivam Kumar Pandey

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the Elvis operator ?: is a binary operator that returns its first operand if that operand is true, and otherwise evaluates and returns its second operand.

In a language that supports the Elvis operator, something like this:

x = f() ?: g()

will set x equal to the result of f() if that result is a true value, and to the result of g() otherwise.

It is equivalent to this example, using the Ternary Operator:

x = f() ? f() : g()

except that it does not evaluate the f() twice if it is true.

Credit:Wiki

answer Sep 9, 2017 by Salil Agrawal
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