in reply to Re: formatting output question (use of recursive subroutine?)
in thread formatting output question (use of recursive subroutine?)

I have thought about this approach. I have already written the first part (the data is stored in the hash %details of match):

my @output_lines; my $model_number=0; foreach my $gene_name (keys %details_of_match) { $output_lines[$model_number]= qw{ } x length($original_seq_string) +; for (my $i=0; $i< scalar( @{$details_of_match{$gene_name}} ); $i++ + ) { substr $output_lines[$model_number] # the new li +ne , $details_of_match{$gene_name}->[$i][0] # the +position , 21 # the length (constant) , $details_of_match{$gene_name}->[$i][2] #the patt +ern ; } $model_number++; }

At this point, I have all the lines, each one with just one substring in the right position, stored in the array @output_lines. But then, I get stuck with the second part, because I don't imagine how to collapse all the lines into the least number of possible lines.