#!/usr/bin/perl; use SuffixTree; use warnings; use strict; my $filename7 = "C:\\MB\\Cp\\mississippi_out_7.txt"; open(MY7, ">>$filename7") or die "Unable to open $filename7: $!\n"; my $str="catgatgttttccctatgggatttttgaa"; my $tree=create_tree($str); print_tree($tree); my $position = find_substring($tree, "ttttg"); printf("\nPosition of (ttttg) in the sequence is %ld.\n\n", $position); print MY7 "$tree"; #tried to output to .txt print MY7 "${$tree}"; #tried to dereference exit 0;