Method for displaying the largest of three numbers with the ? operator

Question

I've been trying to define a method that should store the largest of three int numbers in a variable and then return that value.

Here's how I tried it:

public static int Max(int a, int b, int c)
{
    int iResult = 0;

    a > b && a > c ? iResult = a : b > a && b > c ? iResult = b : iResult = c;
    return(iResult);
}

Would be cool if someone could show me why the "?" operator doesn't work :)

Answer 1

? : - ternary operator - gets 3 arguments and returns one result

  iResult = condition ? onTrue : onFalse;

In our case we have to combine two ternary operators:

  iResult = condition1 ? onTrue1 
          : condition2 ? onTrue2
          : onFalse1and2;

It can be (please, don't forget about formatting, let's keep the code being readable)

  iResult = a > b && a > c ? a
          : b > a && b > c ? b
          : c;

Or we can get rid of iResult and put it compact as

  public static int Max(int a, int b, int c) =>
      a > b && a > c ? a
    : b > a && b > c ? b
    : c;