Hi, this seems to be a trivial task in Perl (update: although your spec is not clear, really: you say "the ONE" but there may be more than one?).

From your previous question:
I am new at this and don't know where to start.

Do you want to learn Perl, or just pass your bio class?

This is the place to learn Perl.

See perlintro, perlretut.

If you just have other people do your work for you, you won't learn anything. Scientists aren't like that.

Update: deleted example solution as I am not sure I understand the spec after follow-up post from OP...


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Perl regex by 1nickt
in thread Perl regex by Nicpetbio23!

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