use 5.026; use warnings; open my $dnaFH, q{<}, \ <<__EOD__ or die $!; TAAGAACAATAAGAACAAGAACAATAA GAACAATAAGXAATAAGAAXXAACAAGAACAATAA ACAATAAAAGAACAATAAGAA __EOD__ while ( my $sequence = <$dnaFH> ) { chomp $sequence; my $length = length $sequence; say qq{Sequence: $sequence -- Length $length}; if ( $sequence =~ m{^[ACGT]+$} ) { say q{ Sequence is GOOD!}; } else { my @badPosns; push @badPosns, pos $sequence while $sequence =~ m{(?x) (?= ( [^ACGT] ) )}g; my $nBad = scalar @badPosns; my $perc = sprintf q{%.2f}, $nBad / $length * 100; say qq{ Sequence is BAD at @badPosns}; say qq{ $nBad bad positions, $perc\% of total}; } } close $dnaFH or die $!; #### Sequence: TAAGAACAATAAGAACAAGAACAATAA -- Length 27 Sequence is GOOD! Sequence: GAACAATAAGXAATAAGAAXXAACAAGAACAATAA -- Length 35 Sequence is BAD at 10 19 20 3 bad positions, 8.57% of total Sequence: ACAATAAAAGAACAATAAGAA -- Length 21 Sequence is GOOD!