Perl Programming/Keywords/and

The and keyword

and is a logical short-circuit AND operator that has a very low precedence, but is otherwise equivalent to &&.

Syntax

  VALUE and VALUE

Examples

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