But trinaries are so much more elegant than if/else statements. Mark
-----Original Message----- From: James Edward Gray II [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 12:33 PM To: perl.org Cc: Perl Beginners Subject: Re: sort by extension On Jul 29, 2004, at 11:23 AM, perl.org wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:08:20 -0400 (EDT), Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote >> >> That's why he broke it down. Is the map() really the problem, or is >> it the regex, the ?: operator, and the two array references? > > All of the above ;), but now that I think about it the map looks > easiest, then > ?: (which I also prefer not to use, along with unless). At least map > is a > word instead of a (cryptic) token. Just for the sake of completeness. COND ? TRUE CODE : FALSE CODE is generally the same as if (COND) { TRUE CODE; } else { FALSE CODE; } James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
