#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $filename = 'counts.txt'; open (my $fh, '>', $filename) or die "Could not open '$filename' $!"; chomp(my @lines = <>); for (@lines) { print $fh length($_) . " " if ($_ =~ tr/ACGT//); } print $fh "\n"; close $fh or die "Could not close '$filename' $!"; __END__ $ cat counts.txt 107 251