You did not constrain where any of the triplets could match. You could replace

while ($seq =~ /GCT/ig) { $GCT++; }

with

while ($seq =~ /\G(?:...)*?GCT/sig) { $GCT++; }

or with

while ($seq =~ /\G(...)/sg) { $GCT++ if uc($1) eq 'GCT'; }

but lets take one further and use

while ($seq =~ /\G(...)/sg) { $counts{uc($1)}++; }

That reduces your program to

my %counts; ++counts{uc($_)} for $seq =~ /.../sg; for my $l1 (qw( T C A G )) { for my $l2 (qw( T C A G )) { for my $l3 (qw( T C A G )) { my $k = "$l1$l2$l3"; my $v = $counts{$k} || 0; print("$k=$v;"); } print("\n"); } }

In reply to Re: How can I get correct result in counting 3-letter words? by ikegami
in thread How can I get correct result in counting 3-letter words? by supriyoch_2008

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