for ($i = 1; $i < 5; $i++){ $a[$i]{'name'} = "file$i"; open IN, "){ if (/(\w)\t(\w)\t([\d\.]+)/){ $a[$i]{"$1$2"} = $3; $a[$i]{'total'} = sprintf('%.2f', $a[$i]{'total'}+=$3); } } close(IN); } foreach $key ('name', grep {$_ ne 'name'} sort keys $a[1]){ print join "\t", $key, map($_->{$key}, @a[1..4]),"\n"; }