Perl Programming/Keywords/or
The or keyword
or is a logical short-circuit OR operator that has a very low precedence, but is otherwise equivalent to ||.
Syntax
VALUE or VALUE
Examples
The code
$a = 5; # 0101
$b = 8; # 1000
print $a or $b . ", " . $a || $b . "\n";
prints only the first variable, as it is not false:
5