root/galaxy-central/tools/fasta_tools/fasta_compute_length.xml @ 2

<tool id="fasta_compute_length" name="Compute sequence length">
        <description></description>
        <command interpreter="python">fasta_compute_length.py $input $output $keep_first</command>
        <inputs>
                <param name="input" type="data" format="fasta" label="Compute length for these sequences"/>
                <param name="keep_first" type="integer" size="5" value="0" label="How many title characters to keep?" help="'0' = keep the whole thing"/>
        </inputs>
        <outputs>
                <data name="output" format="tabular"/>
        </outputs>
        <tests>
                <test>
                        <param name="input" value="454.fasta" />
                        <param name="keep_first" value="0"/>
                        <output name="output" file="fasta_tool_compute_length_1.out" />
                </test>
                
                <test>
                        <param name="input" value="extract_genomic_dna_out1.fasta" />
                        <param name="keep_first" value="0"/>
                        <output name="output" file="fasta_tool_compute_length_2.out" />
                </test>
                
                <test>
                        <param name="input" value="454.fasta" />
                        <param name="keep_first" value="14"/>
                        <output name="output" file="fasta_tool_compute_length_3.out" />
                </test>
        </tests>
        <help>

**What it does**

This tool counts the length of each fasta sequence in the file. The output file has two columns per line (separated by tab): fasta titles and lengths of the sequences. The option *How many characters to keep?* allows to select a specified number of letters from the beginning of each FASTA entry. 

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**Example**

Suppose you have the following FASTA formatted sequences from a Roche (454) FLX sequencing run::

    &gt;EYKX4VC02EQLO5 length=108 xy=1826_0455 region=2 run=R_2007_11_07_16_15_57_
    TCCGCGCCGAGCATGCCCATCTTGGATTCCGGCGCGATGACCATCGCCCGCTCCACCACG
    TTCGGCCGGCCCTTCTCGTCGAGGAATGACACCAGCGCTTCGCCCACG
    &gt;EYKX4VC02D4GS2 length=60 xy=1573_3972 region=2 run=R_2007_11_07_16_15_57_
    AATAAAACTAAATCAGCAAAGACTGGCAAATACTCACAGGCTTATACAATACAAATGTAAfa

Running this tool while setting **How many characters to keep?** to **14** will produce this::
        
        EYKX4VC02EQLO5  108
        EYKX4VC02D4GS2   60


        </help>
</tool>