Dear Masters,
I have a code that takes two arguments as input. The construct I have in my code is as follow: 
my $based_on = $ARGV[0] ? shift: 'tp';
my $top      = $ARGV[1] ? shift: 1;
print "$based_on $top\n";

# Then the rest of the code

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What I intend to do is to run the code in the following way: 
neversaint$ perl mycode.pl sn 5

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But why the print out result of mycode.pl produces: "sn 1" instead of "sn 5"?
i.e. it fails to capture the second passed argument. Is there anything wrong with the construct in my code snippet above.

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In reply to Ternary Operator for Multiple Arguments Passing by neversaint

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