I'm writing a program that I would like to have use a succint and easy to read rule format. The solution I cam up with makes -w scream bloody murder, though. Is there anything wrong with this approach? Any better ideas?

I just love to play with the ?: stuff! I tried several if{} approaches, but none were as readable. My error logs keep filling up with: "Found = in conditional, should be == at program.pl line 254." Any way to get this ignored (if it's not going to shoot me in the foot)?

Here's my sample:

$allowed{action} = 'post|edit|delete|long|short';
$query->{action} eq "post"    ? ($allowed{msgid} = '^(\d+|new)$') && (
+$allowed{data}  = '^(([^|+]*[^|]+.*\|){4}[^|+]*[^|]+.*)$'):1;
$query->{action} eq "edit"    ?  $allowed{msgid} = '^(\d+|new)$':1;
$query->{action} eq "delete"  ?  $allowed{msgid} = '^(\d+)$':1;
$query->{action} eq "long"    ? ($allowed{sort}  = '^(author|date|subj
+ect|expire)$')
                             && ($allowed{msgid} = '^(\d*|all)$'):1;
$query->{action} eq "short"   ? ($allowed{sort}  = '^(author|date|subj
+ect|expire)$')
                             && ($allowed{msgid} = '^(\d+|all)$'):1;

foreach $key (keys %$query)
{   exists $allowed{$key} ? 1 : return 0;
    return 0 if $query->{$key}!~/$allowed{$key}/;
    1;
}

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BTW, I iterate over the $allowed hash to

In reply to How to write a nice rule base? by TGI

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