Sorry, found the documentation.

- Jan

Tim wrote:

>This is an example of the range operator '..' , which works with
>operands on either side. In a scalar context, if either operand is a
>numeric literal, it is compared to $. , which contains the current
>line number of the input file.
>
>e.g.   next if (5 .. /^Foo/);   #  skips lines 5 up to first line
>starting with Foo
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