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hi, thank you very much for the program. Since, the script which i wrote was very very slow, I tried using the one which you have given. It works fine, but,in the line
print FILE join (" ", @$col), "\n";
i tried replacing it with tab,
print FILE join ("\t", @$col), "\n";
It works fine. But i am sorry to say this so late, that the last column "desc" is sometimes more than one word. So, its like a sentence "desc not found". Moreover, in my original input text file, the columns are separated by "Tab". In this case, when i join the @$cols with \t, the "desc not found" is printed separated with tabs instead of a single space. Since only the last column is prone to have a sentence kind of data in it, the rest of the columns are perfectly alright except for the last column. How do i over come this problem? Please help. Thank you once again :)

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Re^3: segregating data from one file to many files
by dwm042 (Priest) on May 11, 2009 at 21:53 UTC
    The simplest way to overcome the problem you encounter is to count the number of fields in @$col and handle the last few terms separately.

    #! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my %hash; while(<DATA>) { chomp; my @col = split " ", $_; next unless exists $col[3]; next unless $col[3] =~ /^S\d{5}GM\d{3}$/; my $key = substr($col[3],1,5); push @{$hash{$key}} , [ @col ]; } for ( sort keys %hash ) { my $i = $_; $i =~ s/^0+//g; my $file = "output_$i.txt"; # open FILE, ">", "$file" or # die("Cannot open file $file\n"); print "FILE: $file\n"; for my $col ( @{$hash{$_}} ) { my $col_count = scalar @$col - 1; if ( $col_count > 6 ) { # # use array slices to partition data. # my $end = join " ", @$col[6..$col_count]; my $begin = join "\t", @$col[0..5]; print $begin, "\t", $end, "\n"; } else { print join ("\t", @$col), "\n"; } # replace prints with print FILE etc. } # close (FILE); } __DATA__ 11880 13417 - S00010GM001 sml_056 sp|YV02233 desc 13804 14685 - S00010GM002 sml_045 sp|YV02643 desc 15525 18026 - S00001GM001 sml_032 sp|V023334 desc 32763 34239 + S00002GM001 sml_028 sp|YV02376 desc 67929 68933 - S00003GM001 sml_025 sp|YV02346 desc +not found 90562 91368 + S00012GM001 sml_025 sp|YV02376 desc +not found 10209 10433 - S00012GM002 sml_046 sp|YV02355 desc 12522 12576 + S00013GM001 sml_027 sp|0235777 desc 13247 13349 - S00013GM002 sml_088 sp|YV02375 desc
    The output is:

    C:\Code>perl onfour.pl FILE: output_1.txt 15525 18026 - S00001GM001 sml_032 sp|V023334 desc FILE: output_2.txt 32763 34239 + S00002GM001 sml_028 sp|YV02376 desc FILE: output_3.txt 67929 68933 - S00003GM001 sml_025 sp|YV02346 desc n +ot found FILE: output_10.txt 11880 13417 - S00010GM001 sml_056 sp|YV02233 desc 13804 14685 - S00010GM002 sml_045 sp|YV02643 desc FILE: output_12.txt 90562 91368 + S00012GM001 sml_025 sp|YV02376 desc n +ot found 10209 10433 - S00012GM002 sml_046 sp|YV02355 desc FILE: output_13.txt 12522 12576 + S00013GM001 sml_027 sp|0235777 desc 13247 13349 - S00013GM002 sml_088 sp|YV02375 desc