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Re: Why does the Perl conditional operator not do what I expect?by betterworld (Curate) |
| on Apr 20, 2009 at 10:50 UTC ( [id://758666]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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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.)
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