Perl Conditional Statement

A Perl Conditional Statement is a Perl statement that is a programming conditional statement.

• Example(s):
  • if ($_ =~ m/^\d+/) { <expression(s)> }
  • <conditional expression> ? <statement if true> : <statement if false>

    $birthday == $today ? print "Happy B.Day!\n" : print "Happy Day!\n";

• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Perl Pattern Matching Expression.
  • a Perl Iteration Expression.
  • a Python Conditional Statement.
  • an R Conditional Statement.
• See: Bash Conditional Statement, Python Conditional Statement.

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References

• http://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/perl_conditions.htm