what is this doing?

[codrgi]

BOOL varab = TRUE;
if( m_List.size() > ( (varab) ? 13 : 12 ) )

Im really new to c++ and would appreciate if anyone could explain what this statement is doing and what type of operator it is, code is above!

[Disch]

That's the ternary operator. It works like this:

(condition ? if_true : if_false)

So basically it's comparing m_List.size() to either 13 or 12, depending on whether or not varab is true.

Another way to write that would be like this:

int compare;
if(varab)  compare = 13;
else       compare = 12;

if(m_List.size() > compare)

[Stewbond]

(a)?(b):(c)
is the same as

if (a)
then (b)
else (c)