Project Coin provides numerous “small language enhancements” as a subset of the new JDK 7 features. I recently blogged on Project Coin‘s switching on Strings and in this post I write about ...

The Java ternary operator provides an abbreviated syntax to evaluate a true or false condition, ... the condition is false and the program returns a “positive” text String. ... Java ternary if ...

Java’s operators are classified by their number of operands: A unary operator has one operand, for example, ... You’ll learn more about string comparison in a future tutorial.

Parsing by assessment type in a report is a common function. There is a string comparison operator (√) to make this easy. † √ short_company_name:::acme inc √ † The company name is acme. ¥ This will ...