Re^2: true/false condition - what am I doing wrong?

A common use would be like this:
($today eq 'Monday') ? $firstDay =1 : $firstDay =0;
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I have always thought the common use is

$firstDay = $today eq 'Monday' ? 1 : 0;
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Re^3: true/false condition - what am I doing wrong? by Marshall (Canon) on Dec 08, 2011 at 16:58 UTC
correct - tired this morning.. been pulling late nights on a db project... main point is that this is not the right place for 'edit' vs 'add'. Update: even more uses are possible: `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; sub is_name_valid { return $_[0]; #just a dummy } print "the name ",is_name_valid(0) ? "was" :"was not"," valid\n"; # the name was not valid print "the name ",is_name_valid(1) ? "was" :"was not"," valid\n"; # the name was valid` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: true/false condition - what am I doing wrong?
by Marshall (Canon) on Dec 08, 2011 at 16:58 UTC

Update: even more uses are possible:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

sub is_name_valid
{
   return $_[0]; #just a dummy
}

print "the name ",is_name_valid(0) ? "was" :"was not"," valid\n";
# the name was not valid
print "the name ",is_name_valid(1) ? "was" :"was not"," valid\n";
# the name was valid
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