G'day rarenas,

Welcome to the Monastery.

I'd probably use a technique more along these lines:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use 5.014;
use strict;
use warnings;

{
    local $/ = "\n>";

    while (<DATA>) {
        chomp;
        substr $_, 0, 1, '' if $. == 1;
        my ($head, $seq) = split /\n/, $_, 2;
        printf "%-15s %s\n", $head, $seq =~ y/\n//dr;
    }
}

__DATA__
>SEQ1
AAA
>SEQ2
AAA
CCC

>SEQ3

AAA
CCC
GGG

>SEQ4 plus ...
AAA
CCC
GGG
TTT
[download]

Output:

SEQ1            AAA
SEQ2            AAACCC
SEQ3            AAACCCGGG
SEQ4 plus ...   AAACCCGGGTTT
[download]

Notes:

• If you are the Anonymous Monk to whom I responded with "Re: unique sequences" (a couple of days ago), some of that code should look familiar. If you're not that person, or just need a revision, see that post for actual I/O and links to documentation for various elements used in this post.
• See "perl5140delta: Non-destructive substitution" for the 'r' modifier I've used with y///. If you're using a Perl version earlier than 5.14, you'll need to do the transliteration (or transobliteration as it's been called when the 'd' modifier is used) as a separate step prior to printf.

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