Beginning Perl Programming: From Novice to Professional

© William "Bo" Rothwell of One Course Source, Inc. 2019

William "Bo" RothwellBeginning Perl Programminghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5055-6_6

6. Conditional Expressions

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Numeric Comparison

The following operators can be used to compare numbers:

Operator	Meaning
==	Returns “true” if two numbers are equal to each other
!=	Returns “true” if two numbers are not equal to each other
>	Returns “true” if the first number is greater than the second number
<	Returns “true” if the first number is less than the second number
>=	Returns “true” if the first number is greater or equal to the second number
<=	Returns “true” if the first number is less than or equal to the second number

Examples:

  DB<1> $num1=100

  DB<2> $num2=99 ...