On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, John W. Krahn <jwkr...@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Also, is there something in the perl man pages about it? > > > Yes. You probably want perlop? Specifically, http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Conditional-Operator '?:' is otherwise known as the 'ternary conditional operator' -- if you don't know that bit of esoterica, finding the right documentation is a lot harder. 8^) chrs, john. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/