Awk Programming MCQ

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• In awk program, the name of the array can not be same with the
  ক

  name of variable

  খ

  value of the array element

  গ

  name of variable & value of the array element

  ঘ

  none of the mentioned
• Which one of the following is used by awk to control the conversion of numbers to string?
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  RS

  খ

  OFMT

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  SUBSEP

  ঘ

  RSTART
• RSTART is set by invoking the
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  match function

  খ

  index function

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  asort function

  ঘ

  split function
• What is FNR?
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  FNR is the current record number in the current file

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  FNR is the number of fields in the current input record

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  FNR is an array contains the value of environment

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  None of the mentioned
• In awk, the built-in variable FS is
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  input field seperator

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  output field seperator

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  record seperator

  ঘ

  subscript seperator
• The built-in function tolower()
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  converts all lowercase characters into uppercase characters

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  returns the string with all lowercase characters

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  changes the nonalphabetic characters

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  none of the mentioned
• Which built-in function divides string into pieces seperated by fieldsep and stores the pieces in array?
  ক

  split()

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  divide()

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  index()

  ঘ

  sub()
• Which built-in function returns the arctangent of a/b in radians.
  ক

  atan2(a/

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  [ atan(a/[

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  atan_2(a/b)

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  none of the mentioned
• What is the difference between the built-in functions rand() and srand() in awk programming?
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  rand() generates the random number but srand() does not generate the random number

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  rand() generates the same random number always whenever the program runs but srand() generates the different

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  srand() requires the seed() function but rand() does not require to produce the same result

  ঘ

  none of the mentioned
• Which statement instructs gawk to stop processing the current data file?
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  next

  খ

  nextfile

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  exit

  ঘ

  exitfile
• If the argument is supplied to the exit statement,
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  its value is used as the exit status code for the awk process

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  syntax error will generate

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  exit returns status 0

  ঘ

  exit returns status 1
• The next statement
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  immediately stops processing the current record

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  go to the next record

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  immediately stops processing the current record & go to the next record

  ঘ

  none of the mentioned
• Which statement skips over the rest of the loop body, causing the next cycle around the loop to begin immediately?
  ক

  continue

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  break

  গ

  next

  ঘ

  none of the mentioned
• The break statement
  ক

  jumps out of the innermost for loop

  খ

  jumps out of the innermost while loop

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  jumps out of the innermost do-while loop

  ঘ

  all of the mentioned
• The comparison expression “x ~ y” will true if
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  x is not equal to y

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  the string x does not match the regular expression denoted by y

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  the string x matches the regular expression denoted by y

  ঘ

  none of the mentioned
• Concatenation is performed by
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  writing expressions next to one another, with no operator

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  conditional operator

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  relational operator

  ঘ

  matching operator
• All numeric values are represented within awk in
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  double precision floating point

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  integer

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  exponential notation

  ঘ

  fixed point
• What is expression in awk programming?
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  expression evaluates a value to print, test or pass to a function

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  expression assigns a new value to a variable or field

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  expression evaluates a value to print, test or pass to a function & also assigns a new value to a variable or field

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  none of the mentioned
• Which one of the following statement is not true about the format-control letters for printf statement in awk program?
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  “c” prints a number as an ASCII character

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  “d” prints a decimal integer

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  “h” prints an unsigned hexadecimal integer

  ঘ

  “o” prints an unsigned octal integer
• The print and printf statements can be told to send their output to other place except standard output, is called
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  redirection

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  redistribution

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  reinsertion

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  none of the mentioned
• In awk program, the statement “print” with no items
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  is equivalent to “print $0”

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  prints the entire current record

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  is equivalent to “print $0” & prints the entire current record

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  none of the mentioned
• What is the meaning of $ sign in awk programming?
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  the word following is the name of variable

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  we are refering to a field or column in the current line

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  $ sign is used for comment

  ঘ

  none of the mentioned
• An awk program can be run by
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  including the program in the command that runs awk

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  putting it into a file and run with a command

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  running an executable awk script

  ঘ

  all of the mentioned