- auto-increment
- auto-decrement
- ++
- --
Autoincrement
examples/scalars/autoincrement.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $x = 7; # Postfix ++ increments AFTER the OLD value was used my $y = $x++; print "y = $y, x = $x\n"; # y = 7, x = 8, $x = 7; $y = ++$x; print "y = $y, x = $x\n"; # y = 8, x = 8