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Perl: How to open multiple files from a folder and print only column with the given string using perl

Hi all,

I have a basic knowledge of perl and I occasionally use perl scripts to manage and process data, currently am trying to open multiple, tab separated files from a given folder and print the columns with the given string into a single file.

Here is a small example of the input file:

Col1 alpha1 alpha2 beta11
a    4    2    T
b    2    5    T
c    6    6    F
d    3    7    T

For each file I want only columns which has header alpha.

Can someone help me regarding this issue.

Thanks in anticipation

perl file-handling
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updated by Ram Ram • written by R Ravi • R Ravi

Hello R Ravi!

We believe that this post does not fit the main topic of this site.

Not a bioinformatics question

For this reason we have closed your question. This allows us to keep the site focused on the topics that the community can help with.

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written by Devon Ryan Devon Ryan

Hi Ryan,

My apologies if the post is inappropriate, I just started with Biostar and I work with NGS data, and the file I actually want to process is a NGS output called TargetedQC file. I have given an example just for the feel of the file I want to analyze. So should it not be considered?

Thanks

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written by R Ravi • R Ravi

Not really, no. This is just a perl question. Post it to stackoverflow and make sure to demonstrate having tried a solution.

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written by Devon Ryan Devon Ryan

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