Hello, I am using BIO::DB::SAM perl module to parse binary file. Here is my code. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Bio::DB::Sam;
open (OUTPUT1,">op_info.txt") || die "can't: $!";
my $bam = Bio::DB::Bam->open('input.bam');
my $header       = $bam->header;
my $target_count = $header->n_targets;
my $target_names = $header->target_name;
while (my $align = $bam->read1)
{
print OUTPUT1 "$align\n";
}

output:



Bio::DB::Bam::Alignment=SCALAR(0x7fe4d0b194d8)
Bio::DB::Bam::Alignment=SCALAR(0x7fe4d0b194c0)
Bio::DB::Bam::Alignment=SCALAR(0x7fe4d0b194d8)
Bio::DB::Bam::Alignment=SCALAR(0x7fe4d0b194c0)
Bio::DB::Bam::Alignment=SCALAR(0x7fe4d0b194d8)
Bio::DB::Bam::Alignment=SCALAR(0x7fe4d0b194c0)
Bio::DB::Bam::Alignment=SCALAR(0x7fe4d0b194d8)
Bio::DB::Bam::Alignment=SCALAR(0x7fe4d0b194c0)
Bio::DB::Bam::Alignment=SCALAR(0x7fe4d0b194d8)

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How to dereference the variable and print the contents of the file.

Thanks in advance.

In reply to De referencing by rkk

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