Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:
>
> 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';
perldoc perlop
[snip]
Conditional Operator
Ternary "?:" is the conditional operator, just as in C.
It works much like an if-then-else. If the argument
before the ? is true, the argument before the : is
returned, otherwise the argument after the : is returned.
John
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