Re: [edlug] PHP Problem

[Dick Middleton <dick@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Robert,

> > I'm using apache 2 and PHP 4.3.4  and I'm getting some unexpected
> > behaviour.  The following code:
> >
> > 	$v1 = "val 1";
> > 	$v2 = "val 2";
> > 	$v3 = "val 3";
> >
> > 	$val = $v1 ? $v1 : $v2 ? $v2 : $v3;
> >
> > 	echo $val;
> >
> > yields "val 2",  I would have expected it to yield "val 1", as does
> >
> > 	$val = $v1 ? $v1 : ($v2 ? $v2 : $v3);

I think it's the same in perl.  I haven't checked.

I always use brackets anyway otherwise it's ambiguous for the reader too.

Dick
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