and These operators are documented in perlop.

chop VARIABLE chop( LIST ) chop Chops off the last character of a string

redo LABEL redo EXPR redo The

evalbytes EXPR evalbytes This function is like eval

gethostbyname NAME

gethostbyaddr ADDR,ADDRTYPE

setnetent STAYOPEN

msgrcv ID,VAR,SIZE,TYPE,FLAGS Calls the System V IPC function msgrcv to receive a message from message queue ID into variable VAR with a maximum

getppid Returns the process id of the parent process. Note for Linux users: Between v5.8.1 and v5.16.0 Perl

eval EXPR eval BLOCK eval In the first form, often referred to as a "string