Hello monks,
I'm trying to understand what the following regex does,


 print s/$temp1/$words{$temp1} ? "$temp " : "[$temp]"/ex;

I expected it to return the result of the ternary operator, but instead it's returning the value of a hash?

$temp is a string, $temp1 is the same string but entirely lowercase, and %words is populated (word => 1, word2 => 1, word3 =>1 ...).

Thank you!

EDIT 22:26
Using toolic's suggestion I fixed it by setting it as follows:

    for my $temp (@line)
    {
        
        $_ = lc($temp);
        
        s/$_/$words{$_} ? "$temp " : "[$temp] "/ex;
        print;
    }

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Where @line contains all the words in a line of input.
J -

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