The backslash operator means "adddress of" : Scalar Reference « Language Basics « Perl

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The backslash operator means "adddress of"

   

#!/bin/perl
$num=5;
$p = \$num;       
print 'The address assigned $p is ', $p, "\n";
print "The value stored at that address is $$p \n";

   
    
    
  

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