I’ve been trying to be more consistent lately with my blog entries, making at least one a day during the Monday through Friday work week. Well, that has sort of kind of maybe not really worked out too hot yet. But as I sat and thought, while reading through some blogs, I stumbled on Stuart Thompson’s blog where he mentions Null-Coalescing Operators. These suckers are great!
Per the example on his site, what we used to type when checking for nulls appeared something like this:
1 namespace SomeNamespace
2 {
3 public class Coalescing
4 {
5 private string emailAddress = string.Empty;
6 private string parsedValue = string.Empty;
7
8 public string CheckForParsedValue()
9 {
10 if (parsedValue != null)
11 {
12 emailAddress = parsedValue;
13 }
14 else
15 {
16 emailAddress = “(Not provided)”;
17 }
18
19 return emailAddress;
20 }
21 }
22 }
but now will be coded in a super awesome elite looking way of:
10 string emailAddress = parsedValue ?? “(Not provided)”;
I’m stoked personally, and I think this makes a great tip o’ the day! Of course it is kind of a “future” tip o’ the day. Thanks Stuart pointing out this interesting tidbit of future C# coolness.
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