Assign only if condition is true in ternary operator in JavaScript
Don't use the ternary operator then, it requires a third argument. You would need to reassign max to max if you don't want it to change (max = (max < b) ? b : max).
An if-statement is much more clear:
if (max < b) max = b;And if you need it to be an expression, you can (ab)use the short-circuit-evaluation of AND:
(max < b) && (max = b)Btw, if you want to avoid repeating variable names (or expressions?), you could use the maximum function:
max = Math.max(max, b);
An expression with ternary operator must have both values, i.e. for both the true and false cases.
You can however
max = (max < b) ? b : max;in this case, if condition is false, value of max will not change.
You can just set max to itself if the condition is false.
max = (max < b) ? b : max;Or you can try using the && operator:
(max < b) && (max = b);Or to keep your code simple, just use an if.
if(max < v) max = b;