Module 2: PERL

Assignment Level 0: No. 1

1. Which one of the following is NOT a valid Perl variable?

(a) $a123
(b) $a_123
(c) $a-123
(d) @a_123

2. Perl is a very useful language because (select all applicable):

(a) it is an interpretive language
(b) it has only three types of variables
(c) it has powerful string processing capabilities
(d) it is very similar to C

3. The following sequence of Perl statements are expected to calculate a value

500/10, i.e. 50. Is this sequence correct? If not, correct it, if yes, explain
why
it is OK:
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$value = "500";
$v = $value/10;
print "$v\n";
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4. What will be the output of the following sequence of statements?

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$name = "Himanshu";
print ’$name\n’;
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5. Which of the following "shebang" is/are NOT correct?

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#! /usr/bin/perl
# !/usr/bin/perl
#!/usr /bin/perl
#!/usr/bin/perl
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6. Is the following little program correct? If not correct it:

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#!/usr/bin/perl
Module 2: PERL
{print "Hello, World!\n"}
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7. What is wrong with the following array definition:

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@myarray = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
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8. What output is printed for the following code segment?
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@a = (11, 22, 33, 44, 55);
print "$a[0] $a[4]\n";
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9. What is the output from the following program, if KB input is respectively

50, 8, 35 and 250?
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#!/usr/bin/perl
$price = <STDIN>;
if ($price > 100) {print "expensive"}
elsif ($price < 10) {print "bargain!"}
elsif ($price < 40) {print "cheap"}
else {print "standard"}
print "\n";
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10. Write a perl program to read two text files f1.txt and f2.txt and output a file
f3.txt, which contains lines alternately from the two input files. Assume that
the two input files have exactly same number of lines.