N00bie Alert

I was trying to do what I thought was a simple conditional assignment using the  ?: operator on a hash value. The code follows

%HashTemplate =( several key value pairs );
%WorkingCopy = ();
$key = 0;
%WorkingCopy = %HashTemplate;
 for $key (keys $WorkingCopy) {
  $WorkingCopy{$Key} = /p1/ ? "this" : "that";
 }

what I expected was that whenever $WorkingCopy{$key}= /p1/was true (i.e., matched the value), "this" would be assigned to $WorkingCopy{$key}; if false (match failed) "that" would be assigned to $WorkingCopy{$key}

I even tried the alternative:
$WorkingCopy{$Key} = /p1/ ? $WorkingCopy{$key} = "this" : $WorkingCopy{$key} = "that";

In all cases the match fails as written, resulting in: ($WorkingCopy{$key} = "that" for all elements in the hash. Even with different permutations of p1 --e.g, quoted or not quoted within forward slashes, the match fails. (I know p1 exists as hash value).

I've read through the pertinent parts of Camel several times (followed their example), but I'm obviously still missing something basic in my understanding of ?: in a pattern matching expression as above. any light you can shed on my (mis)understanding of the ?: and my example, is most appreciated.

thanks in advance

In reply to ?: conditionals by lcschreier

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