Hello wise monks! I come to ask for your kind advice and enlightenment on the following matter:

I've been trying to print a character a certain number of times, if a certain condition is met. For the printing, I use an “until” loop. For the condition, I would like to use the conditional (ternary) operator. However, this apparently results in a syntax error. Below is example code which produces the error. My intention was to print the equals sign ten times instead.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $count = 0;

( defined $count ) ?
    ( print "=" until ( $count ++ == 10 ) ) :
    ( print "Undefined count.\n" );
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This results in the error: syntax error at ./example.pl line 8, near ""=" until". I have tried using a different form for the loop:

( defined $count ) ?
    ( until ( $count ++ == 10 ) { print "=" } ) :
    ( print "Undefined count.\n" );
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However, that results in a similar error: syntax error at ./example.pl line 8, near "( until". When I try to achieve this using “if” and “else”, it works very well, using this code:

if ( defined $count ) {
    print "=" until ( $count ++ == 10 );
}
else {
    print "Undefined count.\n";
}
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Is it possible to use such constructions within the conditional (ternary) operator, as I've been trying to do? And if yes, how may I do so correctly? Thank you in advance!

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