On Feb 5, R. Joseph Newton said: >my $sequence_length = 20; >my $line = <DATA>; >chomp $line; >while ($line) { > my $sequence_tag = trim_line($line); > $line = <DATA>; > chomp $line; > my @nucleotides = split //, $line; > push @nucleotides, '_' for (1..($sequence_length - @nucleotides));
I'd be in favor of: push @nucleotides, ('_') x ($sequence_length - @nucleotides); The 'x' operator on a list returns the list elements repeated the specified number of times. >__DATA__ > >bob >AGTGATGCCGACG >A G T G A T G C C G A C G _ _ _ _ _ _ _ bob Ack. You're mixing the input with the output! -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>