#!usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $sequence='ABCD'; my @headings= qw/ Tags Frequency /; my @input_files=<*.seq>; foreach my $input_file ('o66.txt') { open INPUT, "<", $input_file or die "Cannot open file \"$input_file\". $!"; (my $outfile = $input_file) =~ s/.seq/.tag.txt/i; my %freq; while (my $line=) { if ($line=~m/$sequence(.{11})(.{11})$sequence/i){ $freq{$_}++ for $1, $2; } } close INPUT or die "Cannot close file \"$input_file\". $!"; #open OUTPUT, ">", $outfile or die "Cannot open file \"$outfile\". $!"; #printf OUTPUT "%-12s%s\n", @headings; printf "%-12s%s\n", @headings; for my $tag (sort {$freq{$b} <=> $freq{$a}} keys %freq) { #printf OUTPUT "%-12s%5s\n", $tag, $freq{ $tag }; printf "%-12s%5s\n", $tag, $freq{ $tag}; } #close OUTPUT or die "Unable to close \"$outfile\". $!"; } __END__ o66.txt is below: @HWDFFFDDABCDEFFFFDDDDDRFFFFEFFEEDDABCDEDDDDDD @HWDFFFDDABCDEFFDFEDEDDRFFFFEFFEEDDABCDEDDDDDD @HWDFFFDDABCDEFFFFDDDDDRFFFFEFFEEDDABCDEDDDDDD @HWDFFFDDABCDEFFFFDDDDDRFFFFEFFEEDDABCDEDDDDDD @HWDFFFDDABCDEFFDFEDEDDRFFFFEFFEEDDABCDEDDDDDD output is: C:\Old_Data\perlp>perl t.pl Tags Frequency FFFFEFFEEDD 5 EFFFFDDDDDR 3 EFFDFEDEDDR 2