Groovy: Elvis operator (?:)

Elvis operator is a shortcut to ternary operator. It is used to assign some default value.

myOrganization = organization ? organization : "ABC Corp"

We can rewrite the above statement using elvis operator like below.

myOrganization = organization ?: "ABC Corp"

HelloWorld.groovy

organization = ""
myOrganization = organization ?: "ABC Corp"

println myOrganization

Output
ABC Corp

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