#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; open (INPUT, $ARGV[0]) or die "unable to open file"; my $sequence; my $count =0; my $base = ("A"|"C"|"G"|"T"); my @array; my $ideal = 250; while () { $sequence = $_; @array = (); @array = split (/\n/, $sequence); foreach $base ($sequence) { $count++; if ($count > $ideal) { print "$base\n"; } } }