#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my $previous_line = ; print " prev\tcurrent\n"; while ( my $current_line = ) { chomp for ( $previous_line, $current_line ); print "input:\t$previous_line\t$current_line\n"; my @previous_cols = split ' ', $previous_line; my @current_cols = split ' ', $current_line; $current_cols[1] += $previous_cols[1]; $previous_line = $current_line = join ' ', @current_cols; print "output:\t$previous_line\t$current_line\n"; print "\n"; } __DATA__ nul 0 foo 1 bar 2 baz 3 qux 4