[Solved] PERL Programming Challenge

Fancy your PERL programming skills ? Take this challenge and answer these simple 5 questions on PERL.
Update : Added solutions

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1. How do I eliminate the newline character from the input variable $age in PERL ?
• • chomp($age);


2. Write a PERL one-liner to convert tab spaces in a file called tabs.txt to one space each
• • perl -pe 's/\t/ /g' tabs.txt;


3. How do you empty the contents of an array called : myarray in PERL?
• • $#myarray = -1;


4. How do I append a new line containing the text “Get water” before the 3rd line of a file : todo.txt using PERL ?
• • perl -pe 'print "Get water\n" if $. == 3’ todo.txt;


5. How do you download the contents of a URL with PERL ?
• • By using LWP.pm [ Perl Module ]
  • use LWP::Simple;
  • $webdata = get ‘http://your-website.com';