DB<56> $_ = "AAATTTAGTTCTTAAGGCTGACATCGGTTTACGTCAGCGTTACCCCCCAAGTTATTGGGGACTTT"; DB<57> $threshold = 3; DB<58> x sort { length($b) <=> length($a) } grep { length >= $threshold } /(A+|C+|G+|T+)/g 0 'CCCCCC' 1 'GGGG' 2 'AAA' 3 'TTT' 4 'TTT' 5 'TTT' DB<59>