question on '?' and ':' in a statement

[cat5ive]

Hi,

Can someone please kindly explain what is this statement doing? I know that if you use '?' in 'if' statement, then it means if-else. But I have no idea what this statement doing.

var evt = (evt) ? evt : event

Thanks in advance

 

[LFI]

If evt is true, then return evt, otherwise return event.

var evt is set equal to what this "tertiary" statement returns (either evt or event).

Does this help?

--Dave

 

[cat5ive]

Thank you very much, Dave.

 

[sedj]

thats not valid Java code BTW ... looks more like Javascript ?!

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