I'm happy to see this post and will follow this thread. I'm interested in genealogy, but have had no place to start with it with perl. A few questions:

Q1) If that text were the entire gene sequence for homo sapiens, how long would it be? How much variation is there in our populations of the cardinality of the gene sequence which represents a given person? Does it vary according to sex?

Q2) For analyzing one's 23andMe data, how is that represented and searched?

Q3) Is there a namespace in cpan developed for frequent tasks in this realm?

Thank you for your comments,

In reply to Re^2: how to isolate text in a text file. by Aldebaran
in thread how to isolate text in a text file. by undergradguy

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