Posted by Dylan on 11/19/05 01:15

Richard Lynch wrote:

> On Fri, November 18, 2005 2:13 pm, Dylan wrote:
>> Is it possible to use the ($test)?$true:$false construction in a
>> (double
>> quoted) string without dropping out of the string and concatenating? I
>> have
>> many lines like:
>>
>> $var = "first part of string ".(($a==$b)?$c:$d)." rest of string";
>>
>> and I feel it would be more elegant to be able to do something like:
>>
>> $var ="first part of string {(($a==$b)?$c:$d)} rest of string";
>
> You could try it faster than I could answer...
>
> If it doesn't work, maybe do:
> $z = $a==$b ? $c : $d;
> $var = "first part of string $z rest of string";
>
> Burying too much login in the middle of your data/string is probably a
> Bad Idea (tm) anyway.
>

I already discounted that since we're talking about a couple of hundred
instances, each of which would need a different $z.

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