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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion docs/csharp/language-reference/operators/member-access-operators.md
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Expand Up @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Beginning in C# 14, assignment is permissible with a null conditional access exp

The preceding example shows assignment to a property and an indexed element on a reference type that might be null. An important behavior for this assignment is that the expression on the right-hand side of the `=` is evaluated only when the left-hand side is known to be non-null. For example, in the following code, the function `GenerateNextIndex` is called only when the `values` array isn't null. If the `values` array is null, `GenerateNextIndex` isn't called:

:::code language="csharp" source="snippets/shared/NullCoalescingOperator.cs" id="NullForgivingAssignment":::
:::code language="csharp" source="snippets/shared/NullCoalescingOperator.cs" id="ConditionalRHS":::

In other words, the preceding code is equivalent to the following code using an `if` statement for the null check:

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