Can you explain what this code fragment is doing?

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repeater.StartIndex = layout == ProductLayout.Grid4Columns ? startIndex - 1 : 0;

I don't get it. What is layout == [expression] doing here in this case as it sets StartIndex

Can somebody help explain what this code is doing?

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