Hi,
I have a long sequence of letters ( an amino acid sequence). I want to
extract 4letters either side
of each S and get them into an array.
e.g.,
ADFGTREDSWQACVDFRSSSGHYT
would get
TREDSWQAC
VDFRSSSGH
DFRSSSGHY etc.
I have worked out how to do this by using substr() but wondered if there
was a more elegant way
using regexps . I tried:
@peptides = $sequence =~ /(\w{4}S\w{4})/g;
this works up to a point, but if there are 2 adjacent 'S' the 2nd one is
not extracted, I guess because
the regexp engine continues after the end of the previous match ie., it
doesn't extract DFRSSSGHY above.
. Is it possible to try the next match from
within the previous match to remedy this?
Thanks for any tips or flashes of inspiration,
Richard
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