> That's the range operator.
which is why it's documented under
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop.html#Range-Operators
rather than
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html
> without regexes, for instance "print if ($.==5 .. $.==20) to print lines
> five through twenty of the input.
which can be abbreviated
print if 5..20;
I frequently use "1..1 or " to keep the header line of a data file eg
perl -F, -lane 'print join q{,},@F[0,2,-2,-1] if 1..1 or $F[6] =~ /
\b EMA \b /ix;' fd_2006_NED.csv
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