Re: Logical OR in assignment


Larry Garfield wrote:
The single pipe | is bitwise OR, yes. You're probably thinking of this
construct:

a = b || c

Which is a valid and common default-value idiom in Python and Javascript, but
I don't think works in PHP. (If it does, someone please correct me because
I'd like to use it. <g>)


PHP will allow you to do the following...

if ( $answer == "yes" || $answer == "yep") {

echo "affirmative";

}

..... At least, I hope it does b/c I use it all the time ;-)

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