I think you'll have a problem with the argument structure: 
sub revdnacomp {
  # my $dna = @_;  
  # the above means $dna gets the number of 
  # arguments in @_, since it's a scalar context!

  my $dna = shift; # or   my $dna = shift @_;
  # ah, scalar context of scalar gives expected results.
  # my ($dna) = @_; # would work, too

  my $revcomp = reverse($dna);
  $revcomp =~ tr/ACGTacgt/TGCAtgca/;
  return $revcomp;
}

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but why not allow the complementation over more than one element? 
sub revcompl { # operates on all elements passed in
  my (@dna) = @_;
  foreach my $segment (@dna) {
    my $revcomp = reverse($segment);
    $revcomp =~ tr/ACGTacgt/TGCAtgca/;
    push @done, $revcomp;
  }
  return @done; # or reverse @done;  # what's best semantics?
}

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Did I miss anything?

In reply to Re: DNA Reverse Complement by jkahn
in thread DNA Reverse Complement by mousey

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