Often you'd want to execute a statement if a certain condition is met, and a different statement if the condition is not met. This is what else is for. else extends an if statement to execute a statement in case the expression in the if statement evaluates to FALSE. For example, the following code would display a is bigger than b if $a is bigger than $b, and a is NOT bigger than b otherwise:
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2 if ($a > $b) {
3 print "a is bigger than b";
4 } else {
5 print "a is NOT bigger than b";
6 }
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