I/O Operators There are several I/O operators you should know about. A string enclosed by backticks (grave

Conditional Operator Ternary "?:" is the conditional operator, just as in C. It works much

Logical Not Unary "not" returns the logical negation of the expression to its right. It's

Logical or and Exclusive Or Binary "or" returns the logical disjunction of the two surrounding

Regexp Quote-Like Operators Here are the quote-like operators that apply to pattern matching and related activities.

No-ops Perl doesn't officially have a no-op operator, but the bare constants 0 and

Relational Operators Perl operators that return true or false generally return values that can be safely used as numbers. For example, the

List Operators (Rightward) On the right side of a list operator, the comma has very low precedence, such that it controls all comma-separated

Exponentiation Binary "**" is the exponentiation operator. It binds even more tightly than

Shift Operators Binary "<<" returns the value of its left argument shifted left by