Re: Why does the Perl conditional operator not do what I expect?

[betterworld]

in reply to Why does the Perl conditional operator not do what I expect?

Running this with perl -MO=Deparse,-p gives:

(($condition ? ($a = 2) : $a) = 3);

So your problem is operator precedence. You should parenthize the assignments. (The ternary operator is often found on the right-hand side of an assignment, so it has higher precedence.)

[Anonymous Monk]

"by ree" Deparse site:perlmonks.org reveals Subroutine reference from Mar 13, 2009. Its time for a sticky on ree's monitor perl -MO=Deparse,-p  foo.pl :)