Perl wrote:
>
> I am trying to understand how this works. For example:
>
> my $n = @$a > @$b ? @$a : @$b;
>
> I understand this is a conditional statement I am just not sure what is
> being compared with ? and :.
That is same as:
my $n;
if ( @$a > @$b ) {
$n = @$a;
}
else {
$n = @$b;
}
Where $n is assigned the number of elements of the largest array.
John
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