Re: perl flawed or my fault

paul wrote:

please help me the check the following code

use strict;

my $something = 'phal';
my $otherthing = 'paul';

my $note_whom = 'szmuzu\'mi';

defined($something) ? $note_whom = $something : $otherthing =
'singapore';

print "$note_whom \n $otherthing \n";

The result is: singapore
singapore

I don't know why the scalar $note_whom get the value that is assigned
to $otherthing.

Please give me the explaination, and thank you.

Because of precedence you have:

(defined($something) ? $note_whom = $something : $otherthing) = 'singapore';

You need to add parentheses:

defined($something) ? ($note_whom = $something) : ($otherthing = 'singapore');



John
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