Chris Stinemetz wrote:
***tested***#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; while (<DATA> ) { chomp; my @array = split; my $GeneID = $array[6]; if ($GeneID =~ /^C|D/) {I'm still learning regex but it could be better written with; if ($GeneID =~ /^[CD]/) {
Plus they do two different things. /^C|D/ matches 'C' at the beginning of the string OR 'D' anywhere in the string while /^[CD]/ will match either 'C' or 'D' at the beginning of the string.
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