On Mar 14, Balint, Jess said:
>What exactly does this ($2 eq '-' && $2) do? Must it be in parenthesis?
Try it. It is "technically" the same as:
if ($2 eq '-') { $2 }
Used in the context of:
>s/(.{1,100})( |-)/$1 . ($2 eq '-' && $2) . "\n"/eg;
Here is an example:
$x = "foo";
$y = $x eq 'foo' && $x; # $y is 'foo'
$x = "bar";
$y = $x eq 'foo' && $x; # $y is '' (false)
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