What do the symbols $ @ and % mean when prefixing a variable?

What do the symbols $ @ and % mean when prefixing a
variable?

Question Posted / nimy

What do the symbols $ @ and % mean when prefixing a variable? ..

$ indicate scalar data type

@ indicates an array and

% indicates an hash or an associative array.

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