in reply to Basic programming question
Perl has a special conditional operator (the ternary ?:) which is custom made for just this type of thing.
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update: Whoops, just noticed that the OP is also decreasing $hour for the "PM" case. In that case, the ternary operator becomes a little more ugly.my $T = ($hour > 12) ? "PM" : "AM";
Your best bet is probably one of the CPAN modules like dragonchild recommends.my $T = ($hour > 12) ? do {$hour-=12; "PM"} : "AM";
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