On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Nandita wrote:

> Thanks, but I forgot to mention in the beginning that i need to make this
> modification only ONCE in my file- the  ">" character comes up every few
> lines, but I only want the title "ALIGNMENTS" in the beginning..i.e, it
> shd not replace all the ">"s in my file..
> ?
> sorry about that!

Try this instead
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;

$^I = '~';
while (<>) {
    ?^>? && print "ALIGNMENTS:\n";
    # perldoc perlop : the section under Regexp Quote-Like Operators
    print;
} continue {
    reset if eof; # perldoc -f reset
}

> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Sudarshan Raghavan wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Nandita wrote:
> > 
> > > Thanks for your message, this is how it looks:
> > > 
> > > beginning of file :
> > > 
> > >  Reading  High Probability Sequences producing High-scoring Segment Pairs:
> > >                                                       Frame Score  P(N)N
> > > 
> > > EMBL:B88446  CpG0200B CpIOWAgDNA1 Cryptosporidium parv... +3    75  0.391
> > > EMBL:AQ935741  CpG2625B CpIOWAgDNA1 Cryptosporidium pa... +1    74  0.631
> > > EMBL:AQ855708  CpG1711B CpIOWAgDNA1 Cryptosporidium pa... -1    71  0.891
> > > EMBL:AQ935455  CpG2480A CpIOWAgDNA1 Cryptosporidium pa... +2    69  0.971
> > > EMBL:AQ450103  500008A04.x1 CpIOWAM13mp18gDNA1 Cryptos... -1    69  0.981
> > > EMBL:AQ254466  CpG0842A CpIOWAgDNA1 Cryptosporidium pa... +2    68  0.991
> > > EMBL:AQ935528  CpG2517B CpIOWAgDNA1 Cryptosporidium pa... -2    67  0.9981
> > > EMBL:AQ854869  CpG2093B CpIOWAgDNA1 Cryptosporidium pa... +2    67  0.9981
> > > EMBL:AQ450236  500009E03.x1 CpIOWAM13mp18gDNA1 Cryptos... -1    65  0.99991
> > > EMBL:AQ003639  CpG0296A CpIOWAgDNA1 Cryptosporidium pa... +2    5 0.999901
> > > 
> > > "ALIGNMENTS:"
> > > 
> > > >EMBL:B88446  CpG0200B CpIOWAgDNA1 Cryptosporidium parvum genomic, genomic
> > >             survey sequence.
> > >         Length = 508
> 
>     >EMBL AQ935528 Cp....
> above is the word "ALIGNMENTS:" which is not present and which i'd like
> to
> > > add in each file. i figure i'd have to write out a reg exp- something like
> > > "newline followed by ">" ...but am not able to get a good start..-and dont
> > > know how to go abt the actual task- figured it had to do with "printing
> > > to" a variable in which i stored the file value...
> > > am chewing on it..
> > 


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