Re^2: Exiting subroutine via next (that old chestnut)

What does the 'and' do? (Googling for "perl 'and'" or "perlsyn 'and'" doesn't give much usefullness :P) I would have thought that that would just throw away every line of my file..?

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Re^3: Exiting subroutine via next (that old chestnut) by runrig (Abbot) on Mar 04, 2008 at 17:31 UTC
'and' is an operator. The idea would be to return a true value from your subroutine if you want to skip that line, and a false value otherwise.	[reply]


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