String comparisons should use 'eq' and not '=='
Jimmy
On 1 Apr 2011, at 08:48, Shevek wrote:
> On 1 April 2011 08:44, Andy Waddington <and...@pennine.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Sometime before sending, Shevek typed (and on Friday 2011-04-01 sent):
>>
>>> but this line is changing it to m4a:
>>>
>>> $prog->{ext} = 'm4a' if $prog->{ext} = 'aac';
>>>
>>> why?
>>
>> I don't do perl, but with most languages, a test should be "=="
>> rather than "=". Is that the case here ? In which case the test
>> will be changeing the ext to "aac", returning true, and the main
>> command will then change it to "m4a".
>>
>> Apologies if I'm barking up the wrong tree (there's a limit to
>> how many different languages one can learn at one time without
>> getting horribly confused :-)
>>
>
> Yep, that's what I thought too (I am a VB programmer moving to C# so
> it wasn't immediately obvious to me)
>
> Perl does use == too but that doesn't fix it either (as per my follow-up post)
>
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