Lucee Developer

I saw this type of code popping up in some Railo source code, but for some reason did not use it before.

In javascript, I was already using it a long time: var a = (b>100) ? 100 : b, but in Railo? Not yet.

Well, that has changed now! It is much simpler then using IIF(), and has great power:

<cfset testValue = 107 />
<cfset nothigherThen100 = testValue gt 100 ? 100 : testValue />

And you can also use it inline:

<cfset testValue = 107 />
<cfoutput>#testValue# is #(testValue gt 100 ? 'greater then' : 'smaller or equal to')# hundred</cfoutput>

Off course, you can nest these statements:

<cfoutput>#testValue# is #(testValue gt 100 ? 'greater then' : (testValue eq 100 ? 'exactly' : 'smaller then'))# hundred</cfoutput>

If you are new to this concept, the syntax is really simple, once you get the hang of it: (also see Wikipedia)

[statement, evaluated to true or false] ? [value if statement is true] : [value if statement is false]

Pretty nifty eeh? [edit] And it works in Adobe Coldfusion 9 too. [/edit]