Re: Tutorial::What is true and false?

print (defined $a) ? "Defined\n" : "Undefined\n";
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is being parsed as:

(print defined $a) ? "Defined\n" : "Undefined\n";
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You need to get rid of those parens, or add an extra layer to have print consider the entire rest of the line to be its arguments, like:

print ((defined $a) ? "Defined\n" : "Undefined\n");
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Re: Re: Tutorial::What is true and false? by japhy (Canon) on May 27, 2001 at 19:47 UTC
Or, like I said in the other place this was posted, put the parens in a more normal place: around the arguments to `defined`: `print defined($a) ? "defined\n" : "undefined\n";` [download] `japhy` -- Perl and Regex Hacker	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Tutorial::What is true and false? by tachyon (Chancellor) on May 27, 2001 at 20:42 UTC
Yes Randal, I know that idiom is broken -> as stated, you may also note that I already use your suggestion in the 5 different working idioms presented. :-) Thanks for that japhy, totally elegant. Either you were obtuse or I was thick last post! tachyon	[reply]