#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $fastaName = "example2.fasta"; open FASTA, $fastaName or die "cannot open $fastaName\n"; my $sequence = ""; my $sequencelength; while ( my $line = ) { chomp($line); if ( substr( $line, 0, 1 ) eq ">" ) { if ( length($sequence) > 1 ) { #Calculate sequence lenght $sequencelength = length($sequence); print "Sequence length: $sequencelength"; print "\n"; $sequence = ""; } print "$line\n"; } else { $sequence .= $line; } } #Calculate sequence lenght for last sequence $sequencelength = length($sequence); #Print sequence lenght print "Sequence length: $sequencelength"; print "\n";