Negate the null-coalescing operator

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Published on 2010-05-17T21:17:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/17 21:20 UTC
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I have a bunch of strings I need to use .Trim() on, but they can be null. It would be much more concise if I could do something like:

string endString = startString !?? startString.Trim();

Basically return the part on the right if the part on the left is NOT null, otherwise just return the null value. I just ended up using the ternary operator, but is there anyway to use the null-coalescing operator for this purpose?

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