>I'm not yet able to read certain parts of perl code. What is this
>comparison/alternation after the hash lookup on 'otherid' called, and what
>does the code do?
>
> $myvar->{id} = ($myvar->{otherid}) ? 'stringA' : 'stringB';It's a "ternary" or "flip-flop" statement. In this case, the above is the equivalent of:
"if myvar->otherid is set, then set myvar->id to stringA, otherwise, set it to stringB".
Code-wise, the above is equivalent to:
if ($myvar->{otherid}) { $myvar->{id} == 'stringA' };
else { $myvar->{id} == 'stringB'; }
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