From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2011-02-10T23:19:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby ternary operator

On Thursday 10 February 2011 23:12:06 Sam T. wrote:
> If I do the following:
> 
> value="off"
> p value == "on" ? "YES" : "NO"
> p value
> 
> Then I get the
> 
> >> "NO", "off"
> 
> Does anyone know how I assign the result of the statement to a variable.
> e.g the result of:
> 
> value="off"
> value == "on" ? "YES" : "NO"
> 
> >> "NO"

Have you tried a simple assignment?

value="off"
other_value = value == "on" ? "YES" : "NO"
puts other_value
=> "NO"

Stefano