Hi all.

Thank you both for the help. In an effort to help others who might find this node, I have included my working code below (assuming of course the format of GenBank files does not change although given the sheer power of perl, modifications should be easy to make): 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use autodie;

my $dna;
open FH, '<', 'fluseq.txt';
my $data = do {local $/; <FH>};

if ($data =~ /ORIGIN(.*)/s)
{
    $dna = $1;
    $dna =~ s/\s+//g;
    $dna =~ s/\d+//g;
    $dna =~ s/\/\///;
}

print $dna;

close FH;

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In reply to Re: Extracting field information from a GenBank file. by Anonymous Monk
in thread Extracting field information from a GenBank file. by Anonymous Monk

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