Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...

I'm working on a basic perl script that needs to print (to a file) a variable all on one line. The variable is initially read in from a file where it may contain one or mare carriage returns or "\n"s.

In the post-genomic era, with an ever-increasing amount of sequence information, it is critical to develop tools that assist in sifting through all the data to identify information amidst the noise.