Perl Programming/Keywords/and
The and keyword
editand is a logical short-circuit AND operator that has a very low precedence, but is otherwise equivalent to &&.
Syntax
edit VALUE and VALUE
Examples
edit The code
$a = 5; # 0101
$b = 8; # 1000
print $a and $b . ", " . $a && $b . "\n";
prints only the first variable, as it is not false:
5