#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; our ($Gene, $Target, $Input) = qw/gene.txt target.txt input.txt/; open Gene or die "$Gene: $!\n"; open Target or die "$Target: $!\n"; open Input or die "$Input: $!\n"; my $gene = join "|", grep {chomp} ; my $target = join "|", grep {chomp} ; chomp(my $input = ); close $_ for qw/Gene Target Input/; my $verbs = 'localizes to|held|located in|localization|translocated to|targets|reaches|exported|export'; # Note corrected 'split' regex for my $sentence (split /\. [A-Z]/, $input){ my $found; for ($sentence =~ /($gene).*?($verbs).*?($target)/ig){ print "$_\t"; $found++; } print "\n" if $found; } #### PfAMA1 located in micronemes PfROM1 located in Golgi AMA1 held micronemes AMA1 held micronemes