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Use the Conditional (Ternary) Operator

Use the Conditional (Ternary) Operator

Problem explanation:

Use the conditional operator in the checkEqual function to check if two numbers are equal or not. The function should return either true or false.

Hint 1

Remember that the "traditional" if...else syntax can be re-written using the conditional operator (condition ? statement if true : statement if false;)

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Code solution:

function checkEqual(a, b) {
  return a === b ? true : false;
}

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Code explanation

• The function checks if the condition before the interrogation sign (?) is true, and if so, executes the true statement. Otherwise, it returns false.

Resources

• "Conditional (ternary) operator" - MDN JavaScript reference