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Gabriele
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Mar 7, 2016, 9:20 AM

Post #1 of 3 (1495 views)

Highlight substring in string	Can't Post

Hi,

I have a CGI script that basically capture a string (a DNA sequence) which the user types in the search box of my interface page.
In my cgi script i want to take that string and analyze it for the presence of a substring (gaatcc); I want to print out my full string with these substrings highlighted in bold.
My code below does half of the job; but for some reasons it only highlight the first occurence of the substring; i.e. if there is more than 1 gaatcc, it highlights the first one only.

My code below:

Code

my $length = length($sequence); 
 
for (my $i=0; $i < $length; $i++)   { 
    if (substr($sequence, $i, 6) eq "gaatcc")   { 
    substr($sequence, $i, 6) = '<b>' . substr($sequence, $i, 6) . '</b>'; 
   } 
 
} 
 
print "<p>$sequence</p>";

Any help?

(This post was edited by Gabriele on Mar 7, 2016, 9:54 AM)

Laurent_R
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Mar 7, 2016, 9:57 AM

Post #2 of 3 (1483 views)

Re: [Gabriele] Highlight substring in string [In reply to]	Can't Post

I can't test a CGI script right now, but does it work any better if you do as in the example below?

Code

$sequence =~ s{gaatcc}{<b>gaatcc</b>}g; 
print "<p>$sequence</p>";

Gabriele
Novice

Mar 7, 2016, 10:03 AM

Post #3 of 3 (1482 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] Highlight substring in string [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thank you very much; This works!

I have been trying to sort this out for the past 4 hours....rookie's troubles..thanks again

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