@TATA = ($seq =~ m/TATA[A|T][A|T][A|T|G]/i) $number_of_TATA = @TATA; if ($number_of_TATA > 0){ print "The positions of the TATA box are:"; foreach (@TATA){ $TATA_position=pos($TATA)-7; print $TATA_position."\n"; }