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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C Operators Missing From Perl Here is what C has that Perl doesn't: unary & Address-of

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