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in reply to What does the ternary statement actually do?

The ternary just allows an expression to have one of two values based on a test. That is:
$a = 1 ? 'abc' : 'def';  # sets $a to 'abc'
$a = 0 ? 'abc' : 'def';  # sets $a to 'def'

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