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in reply to reg reggular expressions

Hi,

This is a very vague question. Supply more details and some example code and I'll try to help you.

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Re^2: reg reggular expressions
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 09, 2012 at 06:52 UTC

    if the file is like this..
    mmu-miR-16-1-3p 8
    mmu-miR-1-1-3p 8
    mmu-miR-500
    mmu-miR-16-1-3p 8
    i need to identify how many individal patterns are available; how many repeats are there for each individual. thank you

      Hi,

      I would use a hash..

      #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @files = ( "mmu-miR-16-1-3p 8", "mmu-miR-1-1-3p 8", "mmu-miR-500", "mmu-miR-16-1-3p 8" ); my %pattern_count; map $pattern_count{$_}++, @files; print "filename $_ patten count $pattern_count{$_}\n" for keys %pattern_count;

        ya this seems to be a better option. however i cant give each pattern individually in quotes so i ll make it read from a file. thank you.