I did not say that your code was "incorrect".   What I did say was that  ? : is usually used as an rvalue expression:

my $variable = /condition/ ? 'TRUE' : 'FALSE';

or as an lvaue expression:

( /condition/ ? $true : $false ) = 'something';

but very rarely, if ever, used in a void context.

The /no_proc/ is a match statement on $_ which yields a true/false value.

The /no_proc/ is a match operator on $_ which yields a true/false value.

print will return a "true value".

It will if it worked correctly, otherwise it will return a "false value".

What would "print /adsf/;" mean? I think nothing,

"print /adsf/;" would print whatever /adsf/ returned, usually either 1 or '' for "true" or "false".   But that is not what the expression I wrote would do which would print either "$_\n" or "$_ : in proc\n" depending on whether /no_proc/ was "true" or "false".

In reply to Re^4: if modifier of a print statement by jwkrahn
in thread if modifier of a print statement by si_lence

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