questions

[xuyong1098 at sohu.com]

Dear Dr. Genevieve DeClerck,

I am a novice of perl. Now I am trying to apply PERL to bioinformatics. I was puzzled by your scripts for SSR finding after reading them.
I would appreciate it if you could give me explanation or some literatures for two questions 

1. about “my @specs = ([2,9],  #dinucl. with >= 9 repeats
	     [3,6],  #trinucl. with >= 6 repeats
	     [4,5]); #tetranucl. with >= 5 repeat ‘’
I could not find the this application of array {@specs = ([2,9], [3,6], [4,5]) } in book.

2.about for($i=0; $i<scalar(@specs); $i++)
I also could find the function of scalar.

Best regards

Yong xu