On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 03:24:11PM +0200, birgit kellner wrote:
> $in{'ma'} ? ($key_match = ($key_match or &{$regexp_func[$field]})) :
> (&{$regexp_func[$field]} or next LINE);
Perhaps expanding it out a bit more would ease your understanding:
if ($in{'ma'}) {
if ($key_match) {
$key_match = $key_match;
} else {
$key_match = &{ $regexp_func[$field] };
}
} else {
if (&{ $regexp_func[$field] }) {
next LINE;
}
}
Whoever wrote the original code should not have tried to compress it that
much. The subroutine calls (&{$regexp_func[$field]}) are bad enough.
Couple that with the ternary ?: operator, an assignment, and some trailing
conditionals and you have a truly unreadable chunk of code. If you can,
change it so that it's less dense.
Michael
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