Richard's Perl Step 01, Getting Started

(P10)
- Download FREE binary for windows at http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
- Something local for emergency
- Install the binary
- Save plain text file as *.pl, and run (really simple)
- Run in windows DOS prompt
perl thisprogram.pl
perl c:\......\thisprogram.pl

My First Programs
step01_01hello.pl - BioInformatics people (text only)

step01_02sample1.pl - Comments, variable, string, new line, concatenate strings (text only)

step01_03sample2.pl - Reverse string, substitute alphabet in string, translate alphabet in string, =~ binding operator (text only)

step01_04Keyboard.pl - Input from keyboard, chomp to remove new line character (text only)

step01_05fileinput.pl - Input from text file, open file, close file, array, convert array of chars to string (text only)

step01_06fileInput2files.pl - Input from 2 text files, combine input sequences (text only)

step01_07OutputFile.pl - Write to a text file (text only)

step01_08Loop.pl - Loop to print out condons, length of string, substring function (text only)

step01_09Array.pl - Looping a array (text only)

step01_10StringToArray.pl - Converting String to Array, check pattern (text only)

step01_11AssociativeArray.pl - Associative Array, convert to normal array (text only)

step01_12Perl2a.pl - School Homework, count the number of different nucleotides in a input file hemoglobin_seqs.fasta (text only and output)

step01_13Perl2b.pl - School Homework, convert codon sequence to amino acid hence protein, input file dopamine_transporter.fasta (text only and output)

Program to extra "helical regions" from Genbank data format and output to RICO and C4.5 file format.

• file 1 SameLength_01_helical.pl (txt)
• file 2 SameLength_02_helical.pl (txt)

step01_14_subroutine.pl - something extra, how to pass value to subroutine, and return value (text only)

Want to know how to do substr? check out the 24hrs book.