Assignment inside Perl ternary conditional operator problems

Question

This snippet of Perl code in my program is giving the wrong result.

$condition ? $a = 2 : $a = 3 ;
print $a;

No matter what the value of

Answer 1

One suggestion to Tithonium's answer above:

If you are want to assign different values to the same variable, this might be better (the copy-book way):

$a = ($condition) ? 2 : 3;