Could someone give a "this is how you avoid problems" reference/post about operator precedence? I've come across something that I was curious about with it. Examples: 

$foo = 'This is a CAPITAL test, man';
$bar = 'IS A cap';
if ((lc $foo) =~ (lc $bar)) {
print lc $foo;
print "\n";
print lc $bar;
print "\n";
print 'YES';
}
else {
print lc $foo;
print "\n";
print lc $bar;
print "\n";
print 'NO';
}

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...the above works fine. But a small change as this:

if (lc $foo =~ lc $bar)

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...breaks it.

Thanks!

Kickstart

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