Win8 Strawberry 5.30.3.1 (64) Sun 04/25/2021 15:11:49 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl use 5.014; # /r modifier for tr///anslation & s///ubstitution use strict; use warnings; my $s = 'ACTGTTCCAAGG'; print "'$s' \n"; $s = reverse $s =~ tr/ATCG/TAGC/r; print "'$s' \n"; ^Z 'ACTGTTCCAAGG' 'CCTTGGAACAGT'