Hi Aditi. During the split, what you have specifid is to match:
gi OR 37182815 OR gb OR AY358849.1 ... That's what is giving the result you have. I.e. the | means OR in a regexp like the one used in split... Easiest solution is to escape the pipe character, i.e.: @seqs=split(/gi\|37182815\|gb\|AY358849.1\|/,$seq); Should lead you closer to a solution to your headaches.. //Anders// On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 08:51, aditi gupta wrote: > hi to all, > > i have a file $seq, in following format: > > gi|37182815|gb|AY358849.1| gi|2353725|gb|AF015490.1|AF015490 100.00 16 0 0 544 559 > 320 335 4.2 32.21 > gi|37182815|gb|AY358849.1| gi|1335960|gb|U55203.1|BTU55203 100.00 16 0 0 544 559 380 > 395 4.2 32.21 > gi|37182815|gb|AY358849.1| gi|1335958|gb|U55202.1|BTU55202 100.00 16 0 0 544 559 443 > 458 4.2 32.21 > > > i split it into arrays using: > > @seqs=split(/gi|37182815|gb|AY358849.1|/,$seq); > > but when i printed the array,it was: > > |||| |2353725||AF015490.1|AF015490 100.00 16 0 0 544 > 559 320 335 4.2 32.21 > |||| |1335960||U55203.1|BTU55203 100.00 16 0 0 544 > 559 380 395 4.2 32.21 > |||| |1335958||U55202.1|BTU55202 100.00 16 0 0 544 > 559 443 458 4.2 32.21 > > > i.e. the second occurance of gi is also being deleted. Also ' | ' separators present > in /gi|37182815|gb|AY358849.1|/ > is still present.can these be removed?and can the second gi,since it is an accession > no. and will be required later, be from deletion? > > > please help!! > > -aditi > > Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner online. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
