in reply to Re: get substring when you know START and END???
in thread get substring when you know START and END???
Try a little arithmetic. The number of characters in a substring is (end - start) +1.
Perl counts the leftmost position (as shown in my English language world) as position '0'. Presuming you want the string between positions 5 (counting from 0, that would be "V" in the string you show) and 10 (which, if I counted right) is "Y", you would be including "TNNA" (this is what you specified, but is it what you want?), which would be
$sub = substr($seq,6, 4);
If you want the characters in positions 5 through 10, you would write something like:
$sub = substr($seq, 5, 6);
which would (again, if I counted right) return "VTNNAY" -- the characters in positions 5 through 10.
emc
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