Perl | Useful String Operators Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025 Comments Improve Suggest changes 1 Likes Like Report A string in Perl is a scalar variable and start with a ($) sign and it can contain alphabets, numbers, special characters. The string can consist of a single word, a group of words or a multi-line paragraph. The String is defined by the user within a single quote (‘) or double quote (“). Operators are the foundation of any programming language, so as in Perl. A user can define operators in String as symbols that help to perform specific mathematical and logical computations on operands. These operations are like concatenation, comparison, substitution, etc.Example: Perl # Perl program to demonstrate the # Concatenation Operator(.) in String #!/usr/bin/perl # Input first string $first_string = "Geeks"; # Input second string $second_string = "forGeeks"; # Implement Concatenation operator(.) $concat_string = $first_string.$second_string; # displaying concatenation string result print "String After Concatenation = $concat_string\n"; Output: String After Concatenation = GeeksforGeeks Some useful operators for String operations in Perl are listed below: OperatorDescriptionqw'quote word' operator is used to extract each element of the given string as it is in an array of elements in single-quote ( ‘ ‘ )qUsed in place of single quotes. It uses a set of parentheses to surround the stringqqUsed in place of double quotes. It uses a set of parentheses to surround the stringyTranslates all characters of SearchList into the corresponding characters of ReplacementListtrSimilar to 'y' operator it translates all characters of SearchList into the corresponding characters of ReplacementListeqUsed to check if the string to its left is stringwise equal to the string to its rightneUsed to check if the string to its left is stringwise not equal to the string to its rightleUsed to check if the string to its left is stringwise less than or equal to the string to its rightgeUsed to check if the string to its left is stringwise greater than or equal to the string to its rightltUsed to check if the string to its left is stringwise less than the string to its rightgtUsed to check if the string to its left is stringwise greater than the string to its rightcmpUsed to compare if the two strings placed left and right to this operator are equal or less than the othersubstitution operator(s)Used to substitute a text of the string with some pattern specified by the usermatching operator(m)Used to match a pattern within the given text Create Quiz Comment A Abhinav96 Follow 1 Improve A Abhinav96 Follow 1 Improve Article Tags : Perl Perl-String Perl-String-Operators Explore BasicsPerl Programming Language2 min readIntroduction to Perl7 min readPerl Installation and Environment Setup in Windows, Linux, and MacOS3 min readPerl | Basic Syntax of a Perl Program10 min readHello World Program in Perl3 min readFundamentalsPerl | Data Types3 min readPerl | Boolean Values3 min readPerl | Operators | Set - 112 min readPerl | Operators | Set - 27 min readPerl | Variables4 min readPerl | Modules3 min readPackages in Perl4 min readControl FlowPerl | Decision Making (if, if-else, Nestedâif, if-elsif ladder, unless, unless-else, unless-elsif)6 min readPerl | Loops (for, foreach, while, do...while, until, Nested loops)7 min readPerl | given-when Statement4 min readPerl | goto statement3 min readArrays & ListsPerl | Arrays6 min readPerl | Array Slices3 min readPerl | Arrays (push, pop, shift, unshift)3 min readPerl List and its Types4 min readHashPerl Hash4 min readPerl | Hash Operations8 min readPerl | Multidimensional Hashes6 min readScalarsPerl | Scalars2 min readPerl | Comparing Scalars6 min readPerl | scalar keyword2 min readStringsPerl | Quoted, Interpolated and Escaped Strings4 min readPerl | String Operators4 min readPerl | String functions (length, lc, uc, index, rindex)4 min readOOP ConceptsObject Oriented Programming (OOPs) in Perl7 min readPerl | Classes in OOP6 min readPerl | Objects in OOPs6 min readPerl | Methods in OOPs5 min readPerl | Constructors and Destructors4 min readPerl | Method Overriding in OOPs6 min readPerl | Inheritance in OOPs7 min readPerl | Polymorphism in OOPs4 min readPerl | Encapsulation in OOPs6 min readRegular ExpressionsPerl | Regular Expressions2 min readPerl | Operators in Regular Expression4 min readPerl | Regex Character Classes3 min readPerl | Quantifiers in Regular Expression4 min readFile HandlingPerl | File Handling Introduction7 min readPerl | Opening and Reading a File4 min readPerl | Writing to a File3 min readPerl | Useful File-handling functions2 min read Like