postincrement in scalar

[Ing. Branislav Gerzo]

Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED],

I have code snippet, which gave me statistics of lines in file:

foreach my $item (@list) {
    chomp($item);
    if ($seen{$item}) { 
        $seen{$item}++;
    } else { 
        $seen{$item} = 1; 
    }
}

this is quite simple, so I rewrite that as:

foreach my $item (@list) {
    chomp($item);
    $seen{$item} ? $seen{$item}++ : $seen{$item} = 1;
}

and perl says:

Can't modify postincrement (++) in scalar assignment ...

What I am doing bad ?

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