[shaunihunter]

I have the following if-then-else expression:

if(a > b )
  {

  }
  else
  {
     System.out.println("a is not greater than b");
  }

I need to switch this over to an "if-then" expression however; I can NOT change what the output says...

Can I simply write it out as:

if !(a > b )
  {
    System.out.println("a is not greater than b")
  }

This post has been edited by macosxnerd101: 19 November 2012 - 10:34 PM
Reason for edit:: Please use code tags

[macosxnerd101]

You would have to surround the !(a < b ) with parentheses as well for it to be syntactically correct. Or you could invert the condition by using the <= operator.

[Inkmeup626]

You could switch "a" and "b"

So rather than...

 
if (a > B)/> 
{
}

You could use....

If (b > a) 
{
     System.out.println( "A is not greater than B.");
}

Inkmeup626, on 19 November 2012 - 10:42 PM, said:

You could switch "a" and "b"

So rather than...

 
if (a > B)/>/> 
{
}

You could use....

If (b > a) 
{
     System.out.println( "A is not greater than B.");
}

Sorry, didn't mean to put the "/>" at the end of that first example....

It should have looked like...
..........................
So rather than...

If (a > B)/>
{
}

.............................
Sorry for the confusion.

[Inkmeup626]

Stupid IPad...I hope u got what I meant lol

[raghav.naganathan]

Inkmeup626, on 20 November 2012 - 11:26 AM, said:

Stupid IPad...I hope u got what I meant lol

Well, its not a problem with your IPad at all...its a bug in the site which sometimes displays these angular brackets /> when it detects a smiley.

You will note that you didn't meant to type 'B' but when you type a 'b' followed by a ')', that automatically converts into a B and sometimes makes it a smiley like this />

I guess that happens more when you try to edit the post, as I have done here

regards,
Raghav

This post has been edited by raghav.naganathan: 19 November 2012 - 11:01 PM

[jon.kiparsky]

Inkmeup626, on 20 November 2012 - 12:46 AM, said:

You could switch "a" and "b"

So rather than...

 
if (a > B)/>/>/> 
{
}

You could use....

If (b > a) 
{
     System.out.println( "A is not greater than B.");
}

This misses one case where a is not greater than b, namely, when a==b. So to reverse an inequality of this sort you have to bear in mind that the opposite of > is <=.

This post has been edited by jon.kiparsky: 19 November 2012 - 11:15 PM

[raghav.naganathan]

What if we use a ternary operator

printf("The bigger number is %d",(a>c)?a:c);

Edit: Thanks to the bug, I am not able to use 'b', so please replace 'c' by 'b' in the above code.

regards,
Raghav

This post has been edited by raghav.naganathan: 19 November 2012 - 11:26 PM