Hi all,
I have a Swissprot flat file and I want to parse the DE row such that 
+it all comes into one single line.....
I have written a code for that but it seems its nor parsing the multip
+le lines..........well I am also a bit new to perl ....
I am posting the structure of the file, which I have to parse..

AB   AAAA_BBBBB             
DE   AC2-(EC 2.7.00.1) (Adaptor-associated
DE   protein 1).
//
ID   CCCCC_DDDDD            
DE   Serine/threonine-protein kinase (EC 2.7.99.1) (Tyrosine
DE   binding protein) (p35BP).
PR   AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
//
ID   RRRRR_GGGGG
AC   Q6Q8;
DE   Serine/threonine-aaaaaa kinase (Tyrosine
DE   kinase 1) (Apoptosis-associated tyrosine kinase) (AATYK) (Brain
DE   binding protein) (p35BP).
PR   xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
CD   zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
//

thanks
KK
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