Precedence of Operators

Associativity	Operator
Left	Terms and list operators
Left	->
Nonassociative	++ --
Right	**
Right	! ~ \ and unary + -
Left	=~ !~
Left	* / % x
Left	+ - .
Left	<< >>
Nonassociative	Named unary operators
Nonassociative	< > <= >= lt gt le ge
Nonassociative	== != <=> eq ne cmp
Left	&
Left	! ^
Left	&&
Left	||
Nonassociative	.
Right	?:
Left	, =>
Nonassociative	List operators
Right	not
Left	and
Left	or xor

Term: variables, quote, quotelike operators, expressions in parentheses, any function whose arguments are parenthesized.

List operator: print, sort, chmod, etc.

Named unary operator: -e (file tests), defined, chdir, sqrt, undef, etc.