#!/usr/bin/perl -l print "Enter the file name "; $filename=; chomp $filename; unless(open(FILENAME,$filename)) { print "Cannot open file \"$filename \"\n\n"; exit; } @sequence =; $seq =join(' ',@sequence); $seq=~s/\s//g; for($i=0;$i<2;$i++){ print "subsequence to search"; my $find = ; my ($before, $after) = $seq =~ /(..)$find(..)/; print "before: $before"; print "after: $after"; open (MYFILE, '>>write.txt'); print MYFILE "$before\n"; print MYFILE "$after\n"; close (MYFILE); }