Sample Technical Interview Questions for Perl Language programming, software development job recruitment exam or written Perl language placement test.
How can you use the CPAN to install a perl module.
Perl script to rename datastage jobs
Explain the difference between object oriented and structure oriented programming.
Explain the significance of symbolic reference in PERL.
Explain the symbol table and its working.
What is the use of ‘ref’ keyword?
How can we find out the type of variable?
How to print an array in reverse order.
How to check the return code for a perl script?
What do you understand by -> symbol in Perl?
What is meant by Grep in Perl?
What do you understand by eval?
Suppose you have to substitute a string in a file. Write the code
How is stack implemented in Perl?
What are the merits of Perl language over C? Where is perl beneficial over C?
Various navigation methods for xml documents.
What is unix tail command?
Explain the difference between die and exit.
use of rmdir
How to remove a directory having files
How can you replace characters with symbols in a text file using Perl?
Explain the difference between a shell script and a perl program.
What is the use of hash in perl??
What do you understand by CPAN?
What are the various modules of CPAN?
Explain the difference between perl and jsp.
What are the merits of perl over jsp.
What is the use of DataHash()?
Importance of require function.
What do you mean by ‘$^0′?
What is a chomp function?
Where do we need a chomp function?
What do you understand by a pack?
What do you understand by qw? or quote word
Define Tk module.
Where do we need a Tk module?
Define subroutine
What is meant by ‘&myvariable’ ?
What is meant by ‘$_’ ?
What are the merits of using C over Perl?
What do you understand by Regular expressions?
What is the difference between local and global variables?
How can we interface perl to a database?
How to make connect perl to a database?
Where can you get help for perl?
Name a package you used from CPAN.
Explain the difference between & foreach, exec and system?
What is -w.strict,-T?
What is the advantage of programming in PERL?
Which arguments have you mostly used for Perl Interpreter?
What are the scoping declarations supported by Perl?
What is the difference between “my” and “local” variable scope declarations?
Explain the difference between use and replace in Perl?
How can you make a variable from a main package as an object of a class?
Explain the importance of @ISA, @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS list & hashes in a perl package?
Explain the function of STDERR()
How can you establish a connection between Sqlserver and perl?
How is the database table information displayed?