I am trying to write a program to break apart one large file into many files.
Specifically I am needing to write an individual file from each section in the file that starts with the > symbol and then name the file with the following 8 characters. I am having trouble getting the program to name the files and then append the data up till the next > symbol into the individual file. Thank you.

show the code first , i mean what u've tried aand we will help

This isn't much but i havent been able to make it too successful yet so ive outlined the basic gist of it. I was trying to do the same thing in matlab but couldnt get it to work and now im trying perl.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;

use script;

open SS, ('ss.txt');

while ( <SS> )
{

#identify '>'

#write new file and name it with the next eight characters

#put the data between the first > and the next > in that file

#put file into secseq thats the file that would contain all the individual files

#close file

#end

#then start with next next part and repeat till the end of the file.

Set the input record separator i.e., $/ to ">" or "\n>" and read-in the file in chunks.

Use substr to extract the 8 characters to be used for the filename.

Open the new file in write mode, ouput the chunk of data and close the file.