Using ternary in JavaScript

Question

Is there a shorter way to write this?

var ttt = "dd";
if (ttt.length < 3) 
ttt= "i" + ttt;

Answer 1

Yours is pretty short, but if you want to use the the conditional operator (a.k.a the ternary operator), you could do the following:

var ttt = "dd";
ttt = ttt.length < 3 ? "i" + ttt : ttt;

... or if bytes are really precious (code golfing?), you could also do something like this:

var ttt = "dd".length < 3 ? "i" + "dd" : "dd";

... but then that could be reduced to just:

var ttt = "idd";

... as @Nick Craver suggested in a comment below.

Answer 2

Or :

var ttt = "dd";
ttt = (ttt.length < 3 ? i : "") + ttt;

Answer 3

The shortest with the same result is:

var ttt="idd";

because "dd" has a length of 2. so the if is always true and you'll always prepend "i"

Answer 4

Another option is to use a regex:

var ttt = "dd".replace(/^(\w?\w?)$/, 'i$1');

But then you have 2 problems :)

Answer 5

Also there's a way with && operator instead of if

var ttt = "dd";
ttt.length < 3 && (ttt = "i" + ttt);