#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my $a="NTCA TCC TCGTCTTTCTTTTTATTGTACTATTAATAGTGCTGTTGATGGCTACTCCTGCTTCCACAT CAACAGCGACGCCGGCGTATAATCATTATGACAACCACGACTAACAATAAAAAGAGCAGTAGAAGGCCCCCGC CTCACGTAGTCGTGGTTGCAGCCGCGGCTGACGATGAAGAGGGAGGCGGGGGT N"; $a=~s/\s+?//g; my %has_dat; foreach my $alpha(split//,$a){ $has_dat{$alpha}++ if $alpha eq ('A'|'T'|'G'|'C') or $alpha ne ('A'|'T'|'G'|'C'); } print $_,'=',$has_dat{$_},' ' for keys %has_dat; print "\nLength: ",length($a),$/; %has_dat=(); while($a=~m/\G(\w{3})/gc){ $has_dat{$1}++; } my $counter=0; foreach (sort keys %has_dat){ if($counter==5){print "\n";$counter=0;} print $_,'=',$has_dat{$_},' ';++$counter; }