my $base = ("A"|"C"|"G"|"T");

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Erm, this is giving you the bitwise or of the four characters. This probably isn't a useful value. Of course you never actually use it anyhow. 

while (<INPUT>)
{
$sequence = $_
@array = ()
@array = split (/\n/, $sequence );

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If you want to use another name for the input line, declare it in the while itself (while( defined( my $sequence = <INPUT> ) )). Also it makes little sense to empty @array right before you assign to it. As for splitting on newlines, that's not really going to work since you haven't changed $/ and you'll only be getting back a line at a time. You probably want to do $/ = "" to get paragraph mode; see perldoc perlvar.

In reply to Re: simple but stuck by Fletch
in thread Base sequence length in fasta format file by lolly

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