I need a little help with Perl. I was studying it recently, read few books and reached the starter or so level, but there is one question bothering my mind: What is the use of the -> symbol? Some of you might refer me to C, but being a C begginer myself I don't recall anything similar to that.
From my understanding, the -> symbol dereferences - but here's my problem, I understand the uses, but how would I use it and why would I need to use it? So far I haven't encountered the need of using complex structures in my code, but this symbol bothers me for some reason, and I won't have a clue what to do if I encounter it in the future. Please present me the uses, the causes and the hows of the -> symbol. Thanks!