in reply to string length problems

It's not clear what you are trying to do, but length or substr would probably help.

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Re: Re: string length problems
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 23, 2004 at 10:44 UTC
    This is the line where i split the string at a user defined value ($window). 
     
$seq =~ s/(.{$window})/$1\n/g;

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    who can I split this the same using substr?
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      for (my $pos = $window; $pos <= length($seq); $pos += $window+1) {
   substr($seq, $pos, 0, "\n");
}

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      is the least ugly I could come up with.
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[d/l]

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