Hello,
I have a method that returns two values that are supposed to hold the contents of a file.
When I insert the returned values into my db only the file names appears in the table fields.
The datatype for the fields are text.

My question is how do I get the file contents into those fields? 
sub msa{
# perform clustalw multiple sequence alignment 
    my ($maid, $maid_dir)=@_;
    my $contig1 = "$maid_dir\\$maid"."contig1";
    my $contig1_out = "$maid_dir\\$maid"."contig1.aln";    
    my $contig2 = "$maid_dir\\$maid"."contig2";
    my $contig2_out = "$maid_dir\\$maid"."contig2.aln";
    my $out1 = "$maid_dir\\$maid"."contig1.txt";
    my $out2 = "$maid_dir\\$maid"."contig2.txt";
    if($contig1=~ m/contig1$/){            
        my @command_contig1 = ('c:\\Clustalw\clustalw2.exe', $contig1,
+ '/align', "/outfile=$contig1_out");    
        system(@command_contig1);    
    }
    if($contig1=~ m/contig2$/){
        my @command_contig2 = ('c:\\Clustalw\clustalw2.exe', $contig2,
+ '/align', "/outfile=$contig2_out"); 
        system(@command_contig2);
    }
    return ($out1, $out2);
}

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Any help will be greatly appreciated!

In reply to Trouble getting the file contents from return values by lomSpace

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