Thanks for the help but unfortunately I received the following error when implementing: $temp =~ s/${pattern}.{6}//s || $temp =~ s/.{6}${pattern}//s; The error message that I received was: "Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string".

In regards to the reversing the pattern, the program that I am writing is going already VERY tedious since the data are so numerous and I'm trying to cut down on as much unnecessary memory usage as possible. It would be simpler to incorporate the 6 preceding/following characters into the pattern but unfortunately they are random sequences of "ACTG" 6 characters long. The possible situations that I would encounter while using a regex would be:
  1. Pattern found at the beginning of string
  2. Inverted pattern found at the beginning of string
  3. Pattern found at end of string
  4. Inverted Pattern found at the end of the string

All of which would need the adjacent 6 characters removed as well as the pattern. Let me know if you can help me out! Thanks again!!

In reply to Re^4: Regex - remove characters (pattern not terminated) by twaddlac
in thread Regex - remove characters (pattern not terminated) by twaddlac

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