Bitwise String Operators Bitstrings of any size may be manipulated by the bitwise operators (~ | & ^).

Gory details of parsing quoted constructs When presented with something that might have several different interpretations, Perl uses the DWIM

Terms and List Operators (Leftward) A TERM has the highest precedence in Perl. They include variables, quote and quote-like operators, any

Smartmatch Operator First available in Perl 5.10.1 (the 5.10.0 version behaved differently), binary ~~ does a "smartmatch"

Named Unary Operators The various named unary operators are treated as functions with one argument, with optional parentheses.

Logical Defined-Or Although it has no direct equivalent in C, Perl's // operator is related

Quote-Like Operators q/STRING/ 'STRING'

Bigger Numbers The standard

Range Operators Binary ".." is the range operator, which is really two different operators

Bitwise Or and Exclusive Or Binary "|" returns its operands ORed together bit by bit.