Assuming that your input file contains only FASTA header records and sequence records (i.e., no blank lines, comment lines, etc.), you might do something like (untested):

my $rx_fasta_header = qr{ \A > }xms; # header pattern - very naive my $rx_sequence = qr{ \A [ACDEFGHIKLMNPQRSTVWY_]+ \z }xms; # plea +se check my $sequence; # sequence accumulator - initially undefined RECORD: while (my $record = <$read_filehandle>) { chomp $record; # get rid of newline, if any # fasta header - process any sequence accumulated so far if ($record =~ $rx_fasta_header) { # do not process if no sequence accumulated so far (i.e., firs +t header) next RECORD if not defined $sequence; my $seq_len = length $sequence; my $seq_n_A = $sequence =~ tr/A//;; do_something_with($sequence, $seq_len, $seq_n_A); undef $sequence; # prepare to process next sequence next RECORD; } # part of sequence - accumulate if ($record =~ $rx_sequence) { $sequence .= $record; # accumulate sub-sequences (records) next RECORD; } die "bad record: '$record'"; # don't know what this is }
(I'm not sure about the codon codes I've used to define $rx_sequence; please double-check this. (Update: Note, also, that the sequence letters I've used are all upper-case, but IIRC these can also be lower-case.))


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In reply to Re^7: How to write to a file? by AnomalousMonk
in thread How to count the length of a sequence of alphabets and number of occurence of a particular alphabet in the sequence? by davi54

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