• String literals can be assigned to string scalars in all of the following ways:

      $my_name =  "john doe"; 

      $dogs_name =  'spot'; 

      $sons_name =  "$my_name".' the second';              # john doe the second

      $temp = 'the third';                                                    

      $grandsons_name =  "$my_name"." $temp";           # john doe the third

   

• Some string operators:

Operator	Operation	Example
.	Concatenate	$s = "Hello" . " " . "World";
.=	Concatenate-Equals	$s .= "!";
x	Replicate	$s = ":^)" x 32;
x=	Replicate-Equals	$s x= 32;

• Some string comparisons operators:

        if ( $name eq 'john doe' and $name ne 'john doe the second' ) { #do something }