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Plural format and ternary operator

   

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my @words = split ('\s+', <>); #read some text and split on whitespace
my $words = scalar (@words);

print "There ", ($words == 1)?"is":"are"," $words word", ($words == 1)?"":"s"," in the text \n";








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