What does the question mark and the colon (?: ternary operator) mean in objective-c?

Question

What does this line of code mean?

label.frame = (inPseudoEditMode) ? kLabelIndentedRect : kLabelRect;

The ? and :

Answer 1

Fun fact, in objective-c if you want to check null / nil For example:

-(NSString*) getSomeStringSafeCheck
{
    NSString *string = [self getSomeString];
    if(string != nil){
        return String;
    }
    return @"";
}

The quick way to do it is:

-(NSString*) getSomeStringSafeCheck
{
    return [self getSomeString] != nil ? [self getSomeString] : @"";
}

Then you can update it to a simplest way:

-(NSString*) getSomeStringSafeCheck
{
    return [self getSomeString]?: @"";
}

Because in Objective-C:

1. if an object is nil, it will return false as boolean;
2. Ternary Operator's second parameter can be empty, as it will return the result on the left of '?'

So let say you write:

[self getSomeString] != nil?: @"";

the second parameter is returning a boolean value, thus a exception is thrown.