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Ruby program to check a person is eligible for voting or not using the ternary operator

Last Updated : December 15, 2025

Problem Solution

In this program, we will read the age of the person from the user. Then we will check the person is eligible for voting or not.

Program/Source Code

The source code to check a person is eligible for voting or not using a ternary operator is given below. The given program is compiled and executed successfully.

# Ruby program to check a person is eligible 
# for voting or not using ternary operator

print "Enter the age of person: ";
age = gets.chomp.to_i;  

msg=age>=18 ? "ELIGIBLE" : "NOT ELIGIBLE"; 

print "Voting eligibility is: ",msg;

Output

Enter the age of person: 22
Voting eligibility is: ELIGIBLE

Explanation

In the above program, we read the age of the person from the user and checked the age of the person for voting eligibility using the ternary operator, and printed the appropriate message.

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