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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Vance E. Neff <[email protected]> wrote:
<snip>
> Well it turns out that error was caused by some other problem. I did
> not realize that "our" was not a function. So you can't do something
> like this:
> our $variable = "value1" if (something is true);
> our $variable = "value2" if (something else is true);
>
> I fixed that and things seem to working as expected.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Vance
>
The general Perl idiom for that is to use the ?: ternary (a.k.a.
"hook") operator:
varialble = condition ? true_value : false_value;
For instance:
my $var = $x > 1 ? 'BIG X! : 'little x';
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