#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use autodie; my $dna; open FH, '<', 'fluseq.txt'; my $data = do {local $/; }; if ($data =~ /ORIGIN(.*)/s) { $dna = $1; $dna =~ s/\s+//g; $dna =~ s/\d+//g; $dna =~ s/\/\///; } print $dna; close FH;