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title: Null-conditional Operator
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# Null-conditional Operator
Null-conditional operators allow for null checking with a minimal amount of code. For example, if you had
an employee variable of type Employee with a property of type Address, you might do null checking as follows:
```csharp
Address address = null;
if (employee != null)
{
address = employee.Address;
}
```
You could use a standard conditional operator to make that check more concise:
```csharp
Address address = employee != null ? employee.Address : null;
```
However, in C# 6.0 null-conditional operators were introduced, so now the above line can simply
be represented as follows:
```csharp
Address address = student?.Address;
```
If employee is null, address will simply be assigned null, and no NullReferenceExeception will occur.
This becomes more useful with deeper object graphs, as you can handle a chain of conditional member access.
For example:
```csharp
string city = student?.Address?.City;
```
Null-conditional operators are short-circuiting, so as soon as one check of conditional member access
returns null, the rest do not take place.
# Null-coalescing operator
Another useful null-checking option is the null-coalescing operator. It returns the left-hand operand if the operand is not null; otherwise it returns the right hand operand.
For example:
```csharp
public string GetStringValue()
{
return null;
}
// Display the value of s if s is NOT null. If x IS null, display the string "It was null."
string x = GetStringValue();
Console.WriteLine(x ?? "It was null.");
// Result:
"It was null."
```