[thelist] JS: compound ternary

[jsWalter]

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> From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Tom Dell'Aringa
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 3:29 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] JS: compound ternary
> 
> 
> Hey JS people,
> 
> I'm trying to build a compound ternary statement and I keep falling
> flat on my face. I know I have something mixed up, I keep getting a
> syntax error. There's a bracket set missing or something. Here's the
> statement:
> 
> var restrict = (document.getElementById) ?
> document.getElementById(oName) : (document.all) ? document.all[oName]
> : return;

Well, my simple test on this...

  var y = 2;
  var z = 7;

  var x = (y == 1) ? 'y' : (z == 1) ? 'z-1' : 'z-2';

  document.write ( x );

produced what I thought it would.

Try displaying values on this before trying to RETURN.

Walter