Editing Ternary conditional operator (section)

====Lucee, Railo, and ColdFusion 11-specific====
[[Lucee]], [[Railo]], and ColdFusion 11 also implement the Elvis operator, {{code|?:}} which will return the value of the expression if it is not-null, otherwise the specified default.

Syntax:

<syntaxhighlight lang="CFC">
result = expression ?: value_if_expression_is_null
</syntaxhighlight>

Example:

<syntaxhighlight lang="CFC">
result = f() ?: "default";

// where...
function f(){
    if (randRange(0,1)){ // either 0 or 1 (false / true)
        return "value";
    }
}

writeOutput(result);
</syntaxhighlight>

The function {{code|f()}} will return {{code|value}} roughly 50% of the time, otherwise will not return anything. If {{code|f()}} returns "value", {{code|result}} will take that value, otherwise will take the value "default".