I found this snippet of code in my travels in researching JSON:
var array = typeof objArray != 'object' ? JSON.parse(objArray) : objArray;
I'm seeing more and more of the ?
and :
notation. I don't even know what it is called to look it up! Can anyone point me to a good resource for this? (btw, I know what !=
means).
It's called a Conditional (ternary) Operator. It's essentially a condensed if-else.
So this:
var array = typeof objArray != 'object' ? JSON.parse(objArray) : objArray;
...is the same as this:
var array;
if (typeof objArray != 'object') {
array = JSON.parse(objArray);
} else {
array = objArray;
}