Note on the perl programming example for newbies

Note: Not intended for professional programmers, but as example for non-programmers wishing to see some programming action. Also a disclaimer: No warranties whatsoever. In the little perl programming example for newbies I documented before, I did not make any tests for how quickly the program ran. Here I offer a modified example keeping tr/// to …

Little PERL programming example for biology newbies

Note: Not intended for professional programmers, but as example for non-programmers wishing to see some programming action. Also a disclaimer: No warranties whatsoever. During an exercise in my intro course in bioinformatics I asked my students to use the following command to count the number of As in E. coli K12's DNA sequence (yeah, the …