Re: Is this reliable?

[blue_cowdawg]

But what I wonder (and have my doubts about) is, will this appoach also work on a arbitrary Perl/OS implementation? My doubt is that

As far as I know the results of a comparative will always evaluate as a non-zero if true. That said I'd be more comfortable doing things this way:

my $r = (temp> 100? 1000: 1250);

That should eliminate any doubt of the matter.