/ operator question

dicty has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

In the perl code,

die(...) if -e '/noexit';

What does '/noexit' or "/" operator mean here?

Thanks,

Dicty

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Re: / operator question by choroba (Cardinal) on Dec 14, 2012 at 05:50 UTC
Inside the single quotes, there are no operators. The / stands for itself, it is a common directory separator, so it perhaps means "Die if the file noexit exists in the topmost directory". See -X. لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]
Re: / operator question by Anonymous Monk on Dec 14, 2012 at 07:27 UTC
perlintro explains how to recognize strings and operators	[reply]
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