Re: Shorthand conditional doesn't evaluate right

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John Bailo <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

string s = "ABC";

Debug.WriteLine(

s.Length>5?"greater":"lesser"

);

The compiler reports:

Operator '>' cannot be applied to operands of type 'string' and 'int'

Isn't Length an int ?

I don't think that's your real code. Could you post a short but
complete program which demonstrates the problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.

Here's an example showing your code working fine:

using System;

class Test
{
static void Main()
{
string s = "ABC";
Console.WriteLine (s.Length>5 ? "greater":"lesser");
}
}

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