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Chapter 22. Perl > Control Structures
Control Structures
In order to write more interesting scripts, you will need to know about control structures.
if Statements
An if statement tests to see if a condition is true. If it is, the following block of code is executed. This example tests to see if the value of $x is less than 0. If so, it multiplies by –1 to make it positive:
