This was discussed on SoPW recently. Here's one solution (mine! what a coincidence): Re: Reverse Complement.

And a link to the entire thread: Reverse Complement.

To process every other line, just check the input line number with $. when you read your file in a while loop, something like this:

while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    for ($_) {
        say    scalar reverse when $.     == 4;
        say uc scalar reverse when $. % 2 == 0;
        default { say };
    }
}

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(Note the above does not calculate the reverse compliment; check the provided links for that. This is just meant to show you a straightforward way to process the lines you desire.)

With a little adaptation, you should have no problem coming up with a solution to your problem.

In reply to Re: find reverse complement of every 2nd line by rjt
in thread find reverse complement of every 2nd line by bingalee

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