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AWK - Ternary Operator
We can easily implement a condition expression using ternary operator. The following example demonstrates this −
Example
condition expression ? statement1 : statement2
When the condition expression returns true, statement1 gets executed; otherwise statement2 is executed. For instance, the following example finds the largest number from two given numbers.
Example
[jerry]$ awk 'BEGIN { a = 10; b = 20; (a > b) ? max = a : max = b; print "Max =", max}'
On executing this code, you get the following result −
Output
Max = 20
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