#!/usr/bin/perl -w $DNA = ; chomp ($DNA); @DNA = split ("", $DNA); $lengthseq = scalar @DNA; print "The length of the sequence is:\n", $lengthseq, "\n"; @nucleotideDNA = ""; #check if each element in array is nucleotide foreach $nucleotide (@DNA){ if ($nucleotide =~ /^[ATCG]+$/){ push @nucleotideDNA, $nucleotide; } else { push @nonvalid, $nucleotide; } }