Hello mlsmit10, and welcome to the Monastery!

The missing semicolon identified by toolic and kcott accounts for the first two error messages. The third arises because in the line:

$final_fragments{$final_fragment1} = $third_fragments[0];

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the variable $final_fragment1 has not been declared. Likewise, the fourth error is due to the undeclared $final_fragment2 in the following line. In Perl, variables are designated by sigils (in this case, @ for an array and $ for a scalar), and variables with different sigils are different variables.1 So, e.g., $final_fragment1 is an entirely different variable to @final_fragment1, and unrelated to it.

I’m not sure what you were intending in these two lines. If you wanted the number of elements in each array, you would write:

$final_fragments{scalar @final_fragment1} = $third_fragments[0];
$final_fragments{scalar @final_fragment2} = $third_fragments[scalar @t
+hird_fragments - 1];

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Update: But on second thought, I think you meant to declare these variables as scalars:

my $final_fragment1 = $seqname."_".$i."_1";    
my $final_fragment2 = $seqname."_".$i."_2";    
$final_fragments{$final_fragment1} = $third_fragments[0];
$final_fragments{$final_fragment2} = $third_fragments[scalar @third_fr
+agments - 1];

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Hope that helps,

1See perldata#Variable-names:

Every variable type has its own namespace, as do several non-variable identifiers. This means that you can, without fear of conflict, use the same name for a scalar variable, an array, or a hash--or, for that matter, for a filehandle, a directory handle, a subroutine name, a format name, or a label. This means that $foo and @foo are two different variables. It also means that $foo[1] is a part of @foo, not a part of $foo. This may seem a bit weird, but that's okay, because it is weird.

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In reply to Re: Bioinformatics, Error: explicit package name by Athanasius
in thread Bioinformatics, Error: explicit package name by mlsmit10

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