SPUG: trinary ? operator

Meryll Larkin humbaba9 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 25 19:22:08 CST 2002


1/25/02

Hi Folks, 

I'm using Active Perl5.005_03 on Windows98 and 5.6.1
on Windows2000 professional edition and I can't get
the trinary ? operator to work.  Does anyone have any
experience with this in Windows?  Does my syntax need
correcting?

On pg 92 of Programming Perl (2nd Edition) an example
of the trinary operator is given:

$a = $ok ? $b : $c;

I find if I use this syntax, I get an assignment to $b
(the "true" choice) because $a = $ok has a single =
instead of ==.  

If I try to use == I don't get an error, the entire
line seems to be ignored.  

If I use strings and use "eq" the line is also
ignored.

Turning on -w gets me this error:
Useless use of private variable in void context.
Useless use of private variable in void context.
(yes, twice, I assume it refers to $b and $c)

help?

Meryll




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