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Introduction to perl programming: the minimum to know!

Introduction to perl programming: the minimum to know!. Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur tekaia@pasteur.fr. Bioinformatic and Comparative Genome Analysis Course Institut Pasteur Paris July 5 - July 17, 2010. perl. A basic program #!/bin/perl # Program to print a message

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Introduction to perl programming: the minimum to know!

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  1. Introduction to perl programming:the minimum to know! Fredj Tekaia Institut Pasteur tekaia@pasteur.fr Bioinformatic and Comparative Genome Analysis Course Institut Pasteur Paris July 5 - July 17, 2010

  2. perl • A basic program • #!/bin/perl • # Program to print a message • print'Hello world.';# Print a message

  3. Variables, Arrays $val=9; $val=“9”; $val=“ABC transporter”; • case sensitive: $val is different from $Val

  4. Operations and Assignment • Perl uses arithmetic operators: • $a = 1 + 2; # Add 1 and 2 and store in $a • $a = 3 - 4; # Subtract 4 from 3 and store in $a • $a = 5 * 6; # Multiply 5 and 6 • $a = 7 / 8; # Divide 7 by 8 to give 0.875 • $a = 9 ** 10; # Nine to the power of 10 • $a = 5 % 2; # Remainder of 5 divided by 2 • $a++; # Return $a and then increment it • $a--; # Return $a and then decrement it • for strings perl has among others: • $a = $b . $c; # Concatenate $b and $c • $a = $b x $c; # $b repeated $c times

  5. To assign values perl includes $a = $b; # Assign $b to $a $a += $b; # Add $b to $a $a -= $b; # Subtract $b from $a $a .= $b; # Append $b onto $a

  6. Array variables An array variable is a list of scalars (ie numbers and/or strings). they are prefixed by: @ @SEQNAME = (”MG001", ”MG002", ”MG003"); $SEQNAME[2] (MG003) Attention: 0, 1, 2,.... @num = (0,1,2,3);

  7. @L_CODONS = ('TTT','TTC','TTA','TTG', 'CTT','CTC','CTA','CTG', 'ATT','ATC','ATA','ATG', 'GTT','GTC','GTA','GTG', 'TCT','TCC','TCA','TCG', 'CCT','CCC','CCA','CCG', 'ACT','ACC','ACA','ACG', 'GCT','GCC','GCA','GCG', 'TAT','TAC','TAA','TAG', 'CAT','CAC','CAA','CAG', 'AAT','AAC','AAA','AAG', 'GAT','GAC','GAA','GAG', 'TGT','TGC','TGA','TGG', 'CGT','CGC','CGA','CGG', 'AGT','AGC','AGA','AGG', 'GGT','GGC','GGA','GGG');

  8. @AA = ('A','R','N','D','C','Q','E','G','H','I','L','K','M','F','P','S','T','W','Y','V','B'); @mm = ( 'a','r','n','d','c','q','e','g','h','i','l','k','m','f','p','s','t','w','y','v','b’ );

  9. Associative arrays : hash tables Ordinary list arrays allow us to access their element by number. The first element of array @AA is $AA[0]. The second element is $AA[1], and so on. But perl also allows us to create arrays which areaccessed by string. These are called associative arrays. array itself is prefixed by a % sign

  10. %ages = (”Michael", 39, "Angie", 27, "Willy", "21 years", "The Queen Mother", 108); $ages{"Michael"}; # Returns 39 $ages{"Angie"}; # Returns 27 $ages{"Willy"}; # Returns "21 years" $ages{"The Queen Mother"}; # Returns 108

  11. File handling a script (cat.pl) equivalent to the UNIX cat: #!/bin/perl open(FILE,”GMG.pep”); while<FILE> { print $_; } close (FILE); use: chmod a+x cat.pl ; cat.pl

  12. split A very useful function in perl: splits up a string and places it into an array. #!/bin/perl open(FILE,”GMG.pep”); while<FILE> { @tab=split(/\s+/, $_); print $tab[0]; } close (FILE);

  13. #!/bin/perl open(FILE,”GMG.pep”); while<FILE> { @tab=split(/\s+/, $_, 2); $NOM{$tab[0]} = $tab[1]; print $NOM{$tab[0]} ; } close (FILE); @tab=split(/\s+/,$_,n);

  14. Control structures foreach To go through each line of an array or other list-like structure (such as lines in a file) perl uses the foreach structure. This has the form foreach $nom (@SEQNAME) # Visit each item in turn # and call it $nom { print "$nom\n"; # Print the item }

  15. foreach $j ( 0 .. 2) # Visit each value in turn # and call it $j { print "$SEQNAM[$j]\n";# Print the item } foreach $j ( 0 .. $#AA) # Visit each value in turn # and call it $j { print "$AA[$j]\n";# Print the item }

  16. Testing Here are some tests on numbers and strings. $a == $b # Is $a numerically equal to $b? #Beware: Don't use the = operator. $a != $b # Is $a numerically unequal to $b? $a eq $b # Is $a string-equal to $b? $a ne $b # Is $a string-unequal to $b? You can also use logical and, or and not: ($a && $b) # Is $a and $b true? ($a || $b) # Is either $a or $b true? !($a) # is $a false?

  17. for for (initialise; test; inc) { first_action; second_action; etc.... } for ($i = 0; $i < 10; ++$i) # Start with $i = 1 # Do it while $i < 10 #Increment $i before repeating { print "$i\n"; }

  18. Conditionals if ($a) { print "The string is not empty\n"; } else { print "The string is empty\n"; } #!/bin/perl open(FILE,”GMG.pep”); while<FILE> { print $_ if ( m/>/ ); } close (FILE);

  19. String matching $a eq $b # Is $a string-equal to $b? $a ne $b # Is $a string-unequal to $b? Here are some special RE characters and their meaning . # Any single character except a newline ^ # The beginning of the line or string $ # The end of the line or string * # Zero or more of the last character + # One or more of the last character ? # Zero or one of the last character

  20. Some more special characters \n # A newline \t # A tab \w # Any alphanumeric (word) character. # The same as [a-zA-Z0-9_] \W # Any non-word character. # The same as [^a-zA-Z0-9_] \d # Any digit. The same as [0-9] \D # Any non-digit. The same as [^0-9] \s # Any whitespace character: space, # tab, newline, etc \S # Any non-whitespace character \b # A word boundary, outside [] only \B # No word boundary

  21. Characters like $, |, [, ), \, / and so on are peculiar cases in regular expressions. If you want to match for one of those then you have to preceed it by a backslash (\). So: \| # Vertical bar \[ # An open square bracket \) # A closing parenthesis \* # An asterisk \^ # A carat symbol \/ # A slash \\ # A backslash

  22. Substitution and translation s/london/London/ $sentence =~s/london/London/ global substitution; i option (for "ignore case"). s/london/London/gi Translation $sentence =~ tr/abc/edf/ tr/a-z/A-Z/; #converts $_ to upper case tr/A-Z/a-z/; #converts $_ to lower case

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