include resources "fasta.txt" // your fasta file void local fn ReadFASTAFile( url as CFURLRef ) open @"I", 1, url CFStringRef dta = @"" while ( !eof(1) ) CFStringRef string = line input 1 if ( !len(string) ) then continue if ( fn StringHasPrefix( string, @">" ) ) if ( len(dta) ) print dta dta = @"" end if dta = concat( dta, mid( string, 1 ), @": " ) else dta = concat( dta, string ) end if wend if ( len(dta) ) then print dta close 1 end fn CFURLRef url url = fn BundleURLForResource( fn BundleMain, @"fasta", @"txt", NULL ) // your fasta file name and extension if ( url ) then fn ReadFASTAFile( url ) HandleEvents