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Perl: code difference

I am new to Perl and I am trying to find the difference between two snippets:

$string && $string eq 'foo'
$string eq 'foo'

I've tried several conditions, but I can't seem to find the difference. Can anyone help me determine the difference?

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One difference is that the second line can generate a warning message (when used use warnings;

) if a variable has never been assigned a value:

use warnings;
use strict;

my $string;

if ($string && $string eq 'foo') {
    print "true1\n";
}
else {
    print "false1\n";
}

if ($string eq 'foo') { # Get warning
    print "true2\n";
}
else {
    print "false2\n";
}


Warning message:

Use of uninitialized value $string in string eq
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