Control Statement inside System.out.println

Question

I am printing something like this:
System.out.println(parts1[0] + "|" + parts1[1]); Now, I want to keep a check i.e. if parts1[1] is say 3 I want to printout Hi and if parts1[1] is any other digit I printout Hello. [parts is obtained by using split method from data]
Can I do it inside the print statement?

Answer 1

Be judicious about this though. Unless the ternary expression and the overall argument to println are both very simple, you'll end up with an unreadable, unmaintainable mess. The only advantage to doing it all inside the println argument is compactness. If it gets unwieldy, break it up into separate statements, assign the end result to a variable, and print that.