How do i use perl conditional statements?

giraffelife

In short in a similar way to other programming languages. The program below provide a basic example. The use of elsif can also be used as in other languages.

#!/usr/bin/perl
$hillary = 6;
$eva = 5;
if ($hillary gt $eva) {
  print "Hillary has more oscars than Eva.\n";
} else {
  print "Eva has more oscars than Hillary.\n";
}

As the equation is true, it prints the first statement. It is always going to be true purely to demonstrate the if/conditional statement structure the values have been hard coded.

$ ./myperl2
Hillary has more oscars than Eva.