[Bioperl-l] get regions

[Siddhartha Basu]

Thiago Venancio wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Using Bio::Seq, is there any easy way to get the coordinates where a
> regular expression matches or should I build a sliding window?
The perl core function "pos" should help you in this case. Do a 'perldoc
-f pos' for details.

-sidd


> 
> For example, looking for a given promoter region in a FASTA file. If
> the region is found, I would like to recover exactly the coordinates
> where it matches.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Thiago