The Logical Operators
Logical operators are mainly used to control program flow. Usually, you will find them as part of an if, a while, or some other control statementThe Logical operators are:
- op1 && op2
- -- Performs a logical AND of the two operands.
- op1 || op2
- -- Performs a logical OR of the two operands.
- !op1
- -- Performs a logical NOT of the operand.
The && operator is used to determine whether both operands or conditions are true and.pl.
For example:
if ($firstVar == 10 && $secondVar == 9) { print("Error!"); };If either of the two conditions is false or incorrect, then the print command is bypassed.
The || operator is used to determine whether either of the conditions is true.
For example:
if ($firstVar == 9 || $firstVar == 10) { print("Error!");If either of the two conditions is true, then the print command is run.
Caution If the first operand of the || operator evaluates to true, the second operand will not be evaluated. This could be a source of bugs if you are not careful.
For instance, in the following code fragment:
if ($firstVar++ || $secondVar++) { print("\n"); }variable $secondVar will not be incremented if $firstVar++ evaluates to true.
The ! operator is used to convert true values to false and false values to true. In other words, it inverts a value. Perl considers any non-zero value to be true-even string values. For example:
$firstVar = 10; $secondVar = !$firstVar; if ($secondVar == 0) { print("zero\n"); };is equal to 0- and the program produces the following output:
zero
You could replace the 10 in the first line with "ten," 'ten,' or any non-zero, non-null value.
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