I am trying to understand how this works. For example:
my $n = @$a > @$b ? @$a : @$b;
I understand this is a conditional statement I am just not sure what is
being compared with ? and :.
I believe that the above just assigns a true or false (1 or 0) to $n. The statement is the same as:
if(@$a > @$b) {
$n = (@$a > @$a); # $n = 0 because @$a is not greater than itself
} else {
$n = (@$a > @$b); # $n could be 1 or 0 depending on the values of @$a and @$b
}I believe what you meant to do is:
my $n = (@$a > @$b) ? @$a : @$b;
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