is there a way of typing for if like:
var = (cond) ? true : false;
or do we have to use this format?
if (cond)
true
else
MATLAB doesn't have conditional expressions, but in some situations you can get a similar effect by saying, e.g., var = cond*true_expr + (1-cond)*false_expr
. Unlike C's conditional expression, this will of course always evaluate both true_expr
and false_expr
, and if cond
happens not to be either 0 or 1 (note: false
behaves like 0; true
behaves like 1) you'll get crazy results.
If you only need true or false, you can do what MatlabSorter
suggests. In case you want a real tertiary operator (i.e. a = b ? c : d
), there is none in MATLAB. However, using the file supplied here, you can get close.
MatLab doesn't have a ternary operator, or any other syntactic sugar for one-line if-statements. But if your if-statement is really simple, you could just write it in one line anyway:
if (cond); casetrue(); else; casefalse(); end
It's not as simple as ternary operator, but still better than writing it in 5 lines of code.
@Leonid Beschastny is correct about the inlining the if-else-end
statement, but If one must, then with any assignment value that can be evaluated as boolean, one can the shortcut boolean operators ||
and &&
:
(cond) && ((var=true_val)||1) || (var=false_val);
Rules:
||
and &&
must be used, NOT |
or &
(var=true_val)
must be followed by ||1
in case true_val == false
(var1=true_val)
while (var2=false_val)
)true_val
and false_val
can be different types provided each then can be evaluated as booleanAlternatively one can do this:
cond && (func1(..)||1) || func2(...);
provided func1
and func2
return a boolean testable value including nothing at all (but no cell arrays!):
Replace
c = (x ? a : b)
by
c = subsref({b; a}, substruct('{}', {x + 1}))
x should be a boolean value or 1 or 0.
true or 1 will select a
false or 0 will select b
This should work with all what cells can contain and can also be used in an intricate formular!
Quick and elegant. I would simply write tern( a>b, a, b) Downside is you have to copy paste everywhere, or have and extra file in the directory
function b = tern(cond, a, b)
if cond
b=a;
end
end