#! perl use strict; use warnings; my (%seqs, $id, $dna); while (my $line = <>) { chomp $line; if ($line =~ / ^ > (.+) /x) { $seqs{$id} = $dna if defined $id; $id = $1; $dna = ''; } else { $dna .= $line; } } $seqs{$id} = $dna if defined $id; for my $key (sort { length $seqs{$a} <=> length $seqs{$b} } keys %seqs) { printf "%s:%d\n", $key, length $seqs{$key}; }