Perl programming on MPE/iX - April 2002

Solution Symposium Page 13April 4, 2002
arithmetic operators
addition: +
subtraction: -
multiplication: *
division: /
modulus: %
exponentiation: **
auto-increment and -decrement: ++ --
++$a - increments $a, returns new value
$a++ - returns current value, then increments $a