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I'd approach it differently. For each line, I would check if the line consisted of all N's. If so, set a flag to indicate this, print nothing, and move to the next line

Repeat until you find a line that is NOT all N's. At that point, print your ">scaffold00002.$something" line, and the process the current line as appropriate.

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Re^2: Conditionally Substituting multi-line string with single string
by gone2015 (Deacon) on Jan 15, 2009 at 23:27 UTC

    Which might be something along the lines of:

    my $flag = 0 ;
my $scaffold ;
my $enumerator ;

while (my $fastaline=<FILE>) {
  if ($fastaline=~ m/^>(\S*)/) {
    $scaffold   = $1 ;
    $enumerator = 1 ;
    $flag       = 1 ;
  }
  elsif ($fastaline =~ m/[ACGT]/) {
    if ($flag) {
      print WORKFILE ">$scaffold.$enumerator\n" ;
      $enumerator++ ;
      $flag = 0 ;
    } ;  
    print WORKFILE $fastaline ;
  }
  else {
    $flag = 1 ;
  } ;
} ;

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    NB: this is not checking that the input is well formed: (a) it accepts any line that contains at least one [ACGT] as being a line to keep; (b) it does not check that the lines being dropped are all N; (c) it does not check the exact form of >scaffold lines; (d) it does not check that at least one ACGT line follows each >scaffold line; ... If the input is 100% trusted, that's fine... (if 100% trustworthy input isn't an oxymoron).

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