Perl: Operations and Assignments
Perl uses all the common assignments:
$a = 1 + 2; # Add 1 and 2 and store in $a
$a = 2 - 4; # Subtract 4 from 2 and store in $a
$a = 2 * 4; # Multiply 2 and 4
$a = 1 / 2; # Divide 1 by 2 to give 0.5
$a = 2 ** 10;# 2 to the power of 10
$a = 5 % 2; # Remainder of 5 divided by 2
++$a; # Increment $a and then return it
$a++; # Return $a and then increment it
--$a; # Decrement $a and then return it
$a--; # Return $a and then decrement it
Also, we can do concatenation as follows: $a="this "."binds"; would store "this binds" in $a. In the following program,
$saySomething = "this is me";
$a = "me";
$b="this";
$combine = $a." is ".$b;
$takeLiterally = '$a is $b';
$a and $ b are same. Double quotes (") forces the variable parameters to be interpolated and evaluated. When the string is captured in single quotes, it is literally taken without any evaluation, therefore , $takeLiterally would return "$a and $b" while $combine would store "this is me". Thus, double quotes forces interpretation of variables, special charaters like new line (\n), new tab(\t). Note again here, that the concatenated variables can be numbers as well. Therefore, $a = 1.2 would make $a = 12. Other assignment variables in perl are:
$a = $b; # Assign $b to $a
$a += $b; # Add $b to $a
$a -= $b; # Subtract $b from $a
$a .= $b; # Append $b onto $a
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