Jan 24, 2019 · 14 The '=~' operator is a binary binding operator that indicates the following operation will search or modify the scalar on the left. The default (unspecified) operator is 'm' for match. The matching operator has a pair of characters that designate where the regular expression begins and ends. Most commonly, this is '//'. Give Perl Re tutorial ...

Here the sigil changes to $ to denote that you are accessing a scalar, however the trailing [0] tells perl that it is accessing a scalar element of the array in _ or in other words, @_.

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...

Nov 10, 2019 · 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 isn't actually any such operator. The angle brackets are used by two operators: readline or glob. The operator depends on the contents of the brackets.

May 2, 2012 · Possible Duplicate: What does =~ do in Perl? In a Perl program I am examining (namly plutil.pl), I see a lot of =~ on the XML parser portion. For example, here is UnfixXMLString (lines 159 to 167 ...

Jun 29, 2012 · In the case of perl /usr/bin/perl is the path to the perl interpreter. If the hashbang is left out the *nix systems won't know how to parse the script when invoked as an executable.

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 what each of those mean and some use cases for them, or at least tell me a …

5 It is the smartmatch operator. In general, when you want information about operators in Perl, see perldoc perlop

This is a Perl program, run using a terminal (Windows Command Line). I am trying to create an &quot;if this and this is true, or this and this is true&quot; if statement using the same block of cod...