Write a Perl script that uses <> to read STDIN such that you can pipe the output of the previous program into it and then sort the cut fragments by length, try doing this using split and storing matches in an array. For example, splitting the sting at the ^ character into a single array variables.

The output of the previous code looks like this...

  AAAAAAAAGACGT^CTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAGACGT^CTTTTTTT

and so the array for this sectionwould look like

 ("AAAAAAAAGACGT","CTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAGACGT","CTTTTTTT")

I am not quite sure how to do this... I imagine the sort function would be used

  sort { length($a) <=> length($b)

and

 split(/\^/

and on the command line I would put previous_script.pl text.txt | new_script

Thank you

In reply to Creating array from previous script using split by Anonymous Monk

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