Assigning using ternary operator?

Question

I am on Perl 5.8 and am needing to assign a default value. I ended up doing this:

if ($model->test) {
    $review = \"1\"
} else {
    $review = \'\'
}
         


        

Answer 1

Besides the conditional operator, I often like to use do, which returns the value from the last evaluated expression:

my $review = do {
     if( ... ) { 'foo' }
  elsif( ... ) { 'bar' }
  elsif( ... ) { 'baz' }
  else         { 'defaut' }
  };