Programming PERL in the .NET Environment

Operators Taken from C Language

This section presents the Perl operators that derive from the C language. Many of these allow for the writing of succinct code.

Assignment Operators

Most operators are binary in nature; that is, they have two operands. For example, the addition operator is binary. In the line of code below, $y and $z are the two operands.

$x = $y + $z;

Any binary operator can be written using the assignment operator rather than using the longer and more traditional approach. Here are some traditional assignment statements using some simple arithmetic operators.

$x = $x + 5;             # addition
$x = $x / 2;             # division
$x = $x * 2;             # multiplication
$x = $x ** 5;            # exponentiation

Perl has a set of operators that are collectively referred ...