Yes, having read all the wonderful stuff up above, I know I shouldn't be using $` and $'. However, I don't have much of a choice because where I work still hasn't upgraded to 5.60. (I do have a request in to ITS, though...) So, I've got the following code:
my ($foo, $bar) = (123, 456);
my $base_string = "#200";
$base_string =~ /^#/ ? $foo = $'
                     : $bar = $base_string;
print "$foo $bar\n";

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This prints out "#200 456" when it should be printing "200 456". Now, I noticed that if I split the trinary up into a if-else, it worked just as expected. Why would that be?

In reply to Why won't $' work in a trinary operation? by satchboost

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