Hi, A very helpful member of this list assisted me in coming up with the following:
substr ($fastaseq{$key}, rand (length $fastaseq{$key}), 3) = ""; This bit of code removes a single character, randomly, but not from the very first 3. it does the removing from the values of %fastaseq. I hope it helps you in some way, but I think you should definitely look at the docs. Regards, Aim. ======================================================= "Kipp, James" wrote: > > > > > > Hello. > > I need to know how to remove a substring from a string and a how > > to remove a simple character occurrence from a string. Thanks > > in advance! > > Christian. > > > > perldoc -f substr > perldoc -f splice > perldoc perlre > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]