if statement - ternary operator in matlab

Question

is there a way of typing for if like:

var = (cond) ? true : false;

or do we have to use this format?

if (cond)
 true
else
 false
end

Answer 1

MatLab doesn't have a ternary operator, or any other syntactic sugar for one-line if-statements. But if your if-statement is really simple, you could just write it in one line anyway:

if (cond); casetrue(); else; casefalse(); end

It's not as simple as ternary operator, but still better than writing it in 5 lines of code.