June 2008
Beginner
352 pages
11h 16m
English
Yes, there are more operators and functions than we can fit here, from the
scalar .. operator to the scalar
, operator, from wantarray to goto(!), from caller to chr. See the perlop and
perlfunc manpages.
The tr/// operator looks
like a regular expression, but it’s really for
transliterating one group of characters into another. It can also
efficiently count selected characters. See the
perlop manpage.
Here documents are a useful form of multiline string quoting; see the perldata manpage.