On Jun 27, Nick Transier said:
>If I define a variable as a string
>my $var = "a";
>
>I can get the increment to work
>print ++$var; --> prints b
>
>but the decrement
>print --$var --> prints -1
>
>Why? and how can I decrement it?
The perlop documentation says that ++ is magical for strings, but that --
isn't. The reason is because there's not a clear-cut way of defining it.
What is 'a'--?
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