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[Solved] Extracting all characters from a string

I want to extract the string TC from the string TC10, the string can have any characters
out of [ATGC].

I used the following code but didnt get the right output. Please guide

Code:

nuc=match(val,/[ATGC]*/)
seq=substr(val,RSTART,RLENGTH)

---------- Post updated at 09:40 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:31 PM ----------

sorry, this is solved... it had lowercase characters also :-/

Code:

nuc=match(val,/[ATGCatgc]*/)

Last edited by vbe; 11-10-2011 at 09:57 AM.. Reason: copleted code tags...

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