Respected Monks,

Please let me know if there is a way that I can insert the logical OR or AND operator in an if loop.

Reason to do this is, I have a condition wherein I need to check if a string contains colon ":" or if the string is not equal to 16 characters, the script should exit.

I know I can write if elsif else, but, am trying to find a way if the || operator, or the && operator can be inserted in an if loop so that I can say something like the following. I tried it out, but its not working.

if ($string=~m/:/g || length($string)!=16)
{
print "Either : already in string on the length is invalid\n";
exit;
}
else 
{
work on that string
}

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Please let me know. Kindly note that I am not a trained programmer and though I have some extremely primitive C knowledge, I am a newbie to Perl, so any mistakes/misconceptions on my understanding of the if loop, please pardon me.

Perl Version - (v5.14.2) MSWin32-x64-multi-thread on Windows 7 64 Bit.

In reply to How to insert || and && in an if loop by perl514

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