C Program to find smallest among three numbers using Conditional operator

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C Program to find smallest among three numbers using Conditional operator

Write a C Program to find smallest among three numbers using Conditional/Ternary operator ?:. How to check alphabets using conditional operator in C programming.

Required knowledge

Operators, Data Types in c, Variables in C, Basic input/output

C Program to find smallest among three numbers using conditional operator

/**
 * C Program to find smallest among three numbers 
 * using conditional operator
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main()
{
    int number1,number2,number3;
    clrscr();
 
    /*
     * Input character from user
     */
    printf("\n Enter first number: ");
    scanf("%d", &number1);
    printf("\n Enter second number: ");
    scanf("%d", &number2);
    printf("\n Enter third number: ");
    scanf("%d", &number3);
    /**
     * If number1<number2 && number1<number3 then
     *     print number1 is smallest.
     * else (number2<number1 && number2<number3) then
     *     print number2 is smallest.
     * else
     *     print number3 is smallest.
     */
    (number1 < number2 && number1 < number3) ? printf("%d is smallest.",number1) :
        (number2<number1 && number2<number3) ? printf("%d is smallest.",number2) : 
        printf("%d is smallest.",number3);
    getch();
    return 0;
}

Output:

Enter first number:20

Enter second number:80

Enter third number:50

20 is smallest.

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