You probably want something like this but as you don't describe what this code is supposed to do (and it is somewhat incomprehensible) I am kinda guessing 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;

print "Please type in the name of a file\n";
my $file = <STDIN>;
chomp $file;

my ($annotation, $seq) = get_dna ($file);

# convert $annotation array reference to a real array
my @annotation = @$annotation;

print "Annotation:\n\n", @annotation, "\n\n\n";
print "Sequence:\n\n", $seq, "\n";

sub get_dna {
    my ($file) = @_;
    my @annotation = ();
    my $seq = '';
    my $in_sequence = 0;
    open FILE, $file or die "Can't open $file, Perl says $!\n";
    while ( my $line = <FILE> )    {
      last if $line =~ m|^//\n|; # stop if line has just // on it
        $in_sequence = 1 if $line =~ m/^ORIGIN/;
        if ($in_sequence) {
            $seq .= $line;
        } else {
            push @annotation, $line;
        }
    }
    close FILE;
    # remove all spaces and digits from $seq. add \n to remove newline
+s
    $seq =~ s/[\s0-9]//g;
    # return @annotation array as a scalar reference and scalar $seq
  return \@annotation, $seq;
}

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cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: please help me!! by tachyon
in thread please help me parse genbank DNA file by foxy

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