use 5.014; use strict; use warnings; my @f1 = qw( >qppq ATATATTTATTATTA TATATATTATATTAT TA >lsl ATTATTATTATTATT AGGAGGAG ); my @f2 = qw( >dfj TATTATTATTTT ATAT >ghg ATATATAT ); { my $i = 1; sub get_lines { my $array_ref = shift; $i = shift if @_; my $old = $i - 1; while (exists $array_ref->[$i] and chr ord $array_ref->[$i] ne '>') { $i++; } return splice($array_ref) if $#{$array_ref} <= $old; return splice($array_ref, $old, $i - $old); } while (@f1 && @f2) { my $j = $i; say join("\n", get_lines(\@f1, $j), get_lines(\@f2, $j)); say "============"; } } # TZN