<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for your quick replay and advice. I have tried your method. But <span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">it complains that</span><div class="HOEnZb">
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[linhy@bioinfo1 Script]$ less try.fa | perl ./fastaLen.pl<br>
Name "main::DATA" used only once: possible typo at ./fastaLen.pl line<br>
42.<br>
Use of uninitialized value in print at ./fastaLen.pl line 49.<br>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">% cat try.fa | perl ./fastaLen.pl</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>or</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">% perl ./fastaLen.pl < try.fa</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>--Torsten Seemann<br>--Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Dept. Microbiology, Monash University, AUSTRALIA<br>
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