Perl assign regex match to variable with default value

Question

I am familiar with assigning a match to a variable using list context:

my ($ans) = $somevar =~ m/(somestuff)/;

But what if I want to assign a default value to $ans when the match fails? Is there a way to do this well in one expression? Preferably without a conditional operator?

Answer 1

Perhaps the ternary operator will be helpful:

my $ans = $somevar =~ /(somestuff)/ ? $1 : 'default_val';