Edward Wijaya wrote: > > Hi groups, Hello,
> I have a file which contain many many of this line (Fasta Format): > > > YNL331C > CAATATGCGAGGGACCTACATGTTGA > CATGACAATGAATTCTATTGAAAAAA > > > YKL071W > ATAATTATTCCTGTTTCTTTAACCTG > GTAAAAAAAAGTACAAACACTTAAGC > > What I would like to do is to concatenate the line below > > into one single string. > Such as the output would be: > > CAATATGCGAGGGACCTACATGTTGAGCATGACAATGAATTCTATTGAAAAA > ATAATTATTCCTGTTTCTTTAACCTGGTAAAAAAAAGTACAAACACTTAAGC > > The current code I created now seem to work but doesn't > gie the result I want. Since it concatenates all into 1 single line. > I thought there must be a very simple way to do this. > But I can't seem to figure out how to achieve that. > > #---My Code -------------- > while (<>) { > if (/^>/) { > next; > } > chomp; > $line .= $_; > } > push (@crseq, $line); > print join("\n", @crseq), "\n"; This should do what you want: $/ = '>'; while ( <> ) { next unless s/\s+\S.*//; chomp; tr/\n//d; print "$_\n"; } John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>