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The above sub does not work

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Re^4: DNA Reverse Complement
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Aug 20, 2009 at 17:57 UTC

    Of course it does. I'm guessing you called it in scalar context and got the count of the transform; e.g., 1.

    print revcompl("CGTAGTC"), $/;
# GACTACG
print scalar revcompl("CGTAGTC"), $/;
# 1

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    There was just a post on this issue this morning: Mini-Tutorial: Scalar vs List Assignment Operator.

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