As fglock pointed out, $_ = /yes/i ? 'Yes' : 'No'; will work. I'll go a step further and say it is preferred. Returning one value or another dependent on a given condition is exactly what ?: is meant to do. It is not meant to be a short version of an if-statement.

As an aside, you might want to be a little more cautious with your regular expression. The string 'noyes' will become 'Yes' with the way you are currently doing it. Consider anchoring the pattern to the beginning of the line like: /^yes/i; to avoid an error like that. Anchor it to both ends with /^yes$/ if want to avoid something like 'yesno' being interpretted as 'Yes' as well.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";

In reply to Re: if condition problem by sauoq
in thread if condition problem by hotshot

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.