package ests; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException; public class SeqExtractor { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String infile = args[0]; int seqcount = Integer.parseInt(args[1]); // open file BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(infile)); int seqs=0; // read line-by-line String line; while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) { if (line.length() > 0 && line.charAt(0) == '>') { seqs++; if (seqs>seqcount) break; } System.out.println(line); } reader.close(); } }