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C++: Ways of printing "Yes" and "No" answers
By kingmanas, history, 2 months ago, In English,

Level 1:

if(CONDITION) cout << "YES"; else cout << "NO"; cout << '\n';

Level 2:

cout << (CONDITION ? "YES" : "NO") << '\n';

Level 3:

This one just came to me while reading this amazing blog by Swift.

cout << "NO\0YES" + 3 * CONDITION << '\n';

Maybe be also written as (thanks to Xellos for correction)

cout << &("NO\0YES"[3 * CONDITION]) << '\n';

With a bit of learning curve:

yeputons's one-liner: 

puts(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&(const int&)(218124110 - CONDITION * 01453204765)));

monsoon's one-liner:

cout << (char*)&(const int&)(23438671621410638LL >> (CONDITION << 5)) << '\n';

Level 4:

(by Alperen_T)

CONDITION && cout << "YES" || cout << "NO"; cout << '\n';

Please share other "YES-NO" one-liners you know. Will add it to this list.

 
 
 
 
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2 months ago, # |
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is just so cringy.

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2 months ago, # |
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Auto comment: topic has been updated by kingmanas (previous revision, new revision, compare).

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2 months ago, # |
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I think you meant in level 3 like this:

cout << "NO\0YES" + 3 * ([CONDITION]) << endl;

Otherwise if condition is true, it prints NO.

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    2 months ago, # ^ |
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    I updated the post, thank you for pointing it out. I forgot to make CONDITION variable common across all the levels.

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2 months ago, # |
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Const
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    2 months ago, # ^ |
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    vector
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2 months ago, # |
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theres also 

if (CONDITION)
{
cout << "NO";
return 0;
}

if youre checking for universal quantification in a loop

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2 months ago, # |
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Not C++ but wild enough

"YNEOS"[not CONDITION::2]
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    2 months ago, # ^ |
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    Assuming CONDITION is a variable:

    for (auto c : "YNEOS\n\n") (CONDITION ^= 1) || cout << c;
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2 months ago, # |
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cout << "NO\0YES\0"[3 * CONDITION] << endl; doesn't work because [] on const char * only gives you one char, i.e. 'N' or 'Y'. On the other hand, it can be replaced by cout << (3 * CONDITION)["NO\0YES\0"] << endl;.

Don't use endl though unless you need to flush.

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2 months ago, # |
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What about this?

(CONDITION && cout << "Yes") || cout << "No";

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2 months ago, # |
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In python:

print("YNEOS"[1-CONDITION::2])
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cout << (char*)&(const int&)(23438671621410638LL >> (CONDITION << 5)) << endl;
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A 2-item constant string array declared using a C++ #define macro.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

#define answer(ARRAY,NO,YES) const string ARRAY[] = {#NO,#YES}

int main() {
	answer(ans,NO,YES); int n; 
	cin >> n;
	for (int condition, i = 0; i < n; ++i)
		cin >> condition, cout << ans[condition] << '\n';  }
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puts(cond ? "YES" : "NO"); // adds new line at end

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puts(reinterpret_cast<const char*>(&(const int&)(218124110 - CONDITION * 01453204765)));

Ideone

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Things lockdown making people do.

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Well, I think this also works and most people will be messaging me mean things for writing this.

string yes = "YES", no = "NO";
if(condition == true && !condition == false){
   for(char &i: yes)printf("%c",i);
}else if(condition == false && !condition == true){
   for(char &i: no)printf("%c",i);
}
cout << endl;
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Great

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