Other Operators and Functions
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.
Transliteration with tr///
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
Here documents are a useful form of multiline string quoting. See the perldata
manpage.
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