Ah, many thanks, I was thinking the difference between && and 'and' was bitwise vs. logical.
Ken On Oct 1, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Frederick Cheung wrote: > > > > On Oct 1, 8:14 pm, Kenneth McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> <%= counter%4==3 and counter > 1 ? "</tr>" : "" %> >> >> Anyone know where those 'false's are coming from? It's got me >> stumped. >> > > The line above is the culprit, and the problem is that you have used > and instead of &&. and has very low precedence, so the above is > equivalent to > > (counter%4==3) and (counter > 1 ? "</tr>" : "") > > (ie the whole expression evaluates to false if counter is not > congruent to 3 mod 4) > > && has higher precedence, replacing the and with && would make it > equivalent to > > ((counter%4==3) and (counter > 1)) ? "</tr>" : "") > > which is what you want. > > Fred > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
