53 From Perl documentation: OR List operators On the right side of a list operator, it has very low precedence, such that it controls all comma-separated expressions found there.

Sep 5, 2012 · @pst, <> is not a file handle, "null" or otherwise. It's an operator. Specifically, the readline operator. There's a reference to it as the "angle operator" in perlvar, although there …

Jun 10, 2011 · Below are the flags that I encounter most often, and I don't have a clue what they mean: perl -pe perl -pi perl -p perl -w perl -d perl -i perl -t I will be very grateful if you tell me …

I'm working on a Perl script. How can I parse command line parameters given to it? Example: script.pl "string1" "string2"

In Perl, the operator s/ is used to replace parts of a string. Now s/ will alter its parameter (the string) in place. I would however like to replace parts of a string befor printing it, as in pri...

The match operator is the syntax that tells the Perl interpreter: here comes a regex. In Perl, the match operator is normally delimited by '/' at start and end, but you can use delimiters (e.g., …

Jan 25, 2015 · What does exactly perl -pi -e do? Asked 10 years, 9 months ago Modified 10 years, 9 months ago Viewed 9k times

Sep 25, 2012 · I came to Perl 5 from C and Perl 4 and always used || until I saw more scripts using or and I liked the way it looked. But as the above quiz shows, it's not without its pitfalls …

Mar 5, 2010 · I'm looking for presence of an element in a list. In Python there is an in keyword and I would do something like: if element in list: doTask Is there something equivalent in Perl …

In short: Perl doesn't have a data-type exclusively for text strings use == or !=, to compare two operands as numbers use eq or ne, to compare two operands as text There are many other …