#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#A program that accept an input file: Scorpion database from Gen Bank
#and will output the database in BioWare format

my $file1="$ARGV[0]";        #var to save the input database
my $counter=1;

open(INFO1,$file1) or die "Can't open $file1.\n";#open file1
foreach(<INFO1>)
{
    if(/DATE\s*(.*)-(.*)-(.*)/){
	print 'DATE'."\t".'"'."$1-$2-$3".'"'."\n";
    }                                             
    elsif(/\s*\/intron=(.+)\n/) {
	my $item;
	my $local=$1;
	$local =~ s/\"//g;
	foreach $item (split('\;',$local)) {
	    $item = " - " if $item =~ " ";
            print "Intron\t \{Translation%$item\}\n";
	}
    } #end elsif
    
    elsif(/\s*\/exon=(.+)\n/) {
	my $item;
	my $local=$1;
	$local =~ s/\"//g;
	foreach $item (split('\;',$local)) {
	    $item = " - " if $item =~ " ";
	    print "Exon\t", " \{Translation\%","$item\}","\n";
	}
    }
}

##</code><code>##

michael@trul:~/> perl prog.pl input
DATE    "13-JUN-2000"
Exon     {Translation%49-333}
Intron   {Translation%1-48}
Intron   {Translation%334-385}
DATE    "14-JUN-2000"
Exon     {Translation%1-120}
Intron   {Translation% - }