Hi,

I personally love using the conditional operator. You just have to be careful with it. For example:

#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

$a = 1;
$b = 2;

(1) ? $a = 3 : $b = 4;
print "1) a = $a, b = $b\n";

(1) ? ($a = 3) : ($b = 4);
print "2) a = $a, b = $b\n";
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displays:

1) a = 4, b = 2
2) a = 3, b = 2
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Which may or may not be what you expect.

Good luck!
{NULE} PS I'm having issues with Opera again, please forgive me if I screw this post up (again.) Time for a new web-browser *sigh*.