Perl Programming/Keywords/or

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The or keyword

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or is a logical short-circuit OR operator that has a very low precedence, but is otherwise equivalent to ||.

Syntax

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  VALUE or VALUE

Examples

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  The code
$a = 5; # 0101
$b = 8; # 1000

print $a or $b . ", " . $a || $b . "\n";
prints only the first variable, as it is not false:
5


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