Ternary operator in PowerShell

powershell ternary-operator conditional-operator

$result = If ($condition) {"true"} Else {"false"}

Everything else is incidental complexity and thus to be avoided.

For use in or as an expression, not just an assignment, wrap it in $(), thus:

write-host  $(If ($condition) {"true"} Else {"false"})

powershell ternary-operator conditional-operator

The closest PowerShell construct I've been able to come up with to emulate that is:

@({'condition is false'},{'condition is true'})[$condition]

powershell ternary-operator conditional-operator

PS C:\Users\js> 0 ? 'yes' : 'no'noPS C:\Users\js> 1 ? 'yes' : 'no'yes

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