Re: Not able to print out hash contents correctly

[poolpi]

I would like to place each of these in a hash and increment a count

Your code could be simplified and fit your needs :

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;


my ( %h, $count );

while (<DATA>) {
    next unless /^>(\d+)/;
    $count++;
    defined $1 and $h{$1} = $count;
}

print Dumper \%h;

__DATA__
>34513
-------------------------------MVAIIFDMDGVLYRG
-----N-RAIPGVRELIEF-------LKE-R--------G------
>22476
------------------------------ALKAVLVDLNGTLHI-
--------AVPGAQEALKR---------------------------
>56832
------MARCERLRGA-----ALRDVLG--RAQGVLFDCDGVLWNG-
----E-RAVPGAPELLER-------LAR-------------------
>12543
---------------------------E--QFDILLLDLDGVVYVG-
----D-RLLPGARRALRR----------------------------G
>29078
---------------------------------AVLFDIDGVLVLS-
----W-RAIPGAAETVRQ-------LTH-R--------G--------

hth,
PooLpi