in reply to Re^2: Confused by a couple of idioms
in thread Confused by a couple of idioms

I think the lowercase "and" basically makes it act more like this: $csv and ($xls = $csv)

Correct. Deparsing makes it even clearer:

12:28 >perl -MO=Deparse -e "$csv and $xls = $csv;"
$xls = $csv if $csv;
-e syntax OK

12:29 >

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Hope that helps,

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Re^4: Confused by a couple of idioms
by nysus (Parson) on Feb 22, 2019 at 12:39 UTC

    Damn, that's crazy. Never knew about that.

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