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in reply to Using a regexp to extract sequence fields

Or of course only with regexp:

my @matches ">blabla1|anyting1|blabla2|anyting2|blabla3|" =~ m/[a-zA- +Z0-9]+/xg; print $matches[2];
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Cheers,
Rob