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Hello, I'm trying to work on code that reads an input file that has lines that start with > then lines of characters (repeated many times). I want to put the line that starts with > into one array, and then put all of the lines following the >line into a separate array as one element (until the next > comes.) So I want to end up with one array that has all of those > lines as elements, and then another array that has all of the text behind each of those > lines as separate elements. My code is working for the > lines how I want, but I seem to just be filling the second array with the text that followed that first >. I feel like this is confusing, but any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

foreach $line(@DNA){
if ($line=~/^>(\S+)/){
    $seqID=$1;
    push(@seqList, $seqID);
    push (@sequences,$dnaString);
}
    else{
        chomp $line;
        $dnaString=$dnaString .$line;}
}
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In reply to Creating 2 arrays from a larger array by imtakinbioinformatic

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