#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use autodie; use Tie::File; my $subset_size = 4; my $min_distance = 20; my (%sample, @keep); tie my @locations, 'Tie::File', './pm_1084445_locations.txt'; my $last_index = $#locations; my @indexes = 0 .. $last_index; for (0 .. $last_index) { my $rand_index = int rand @indexes; my ($chr, $pos) = (split ' ', $locations[$indexes[$rand_index]])[0, 1]; if (is_new_location(\%sample, $min_distance, $chr, $pos)) { push @keep, $indexes[$rand_index]; add_location(\%sample, $chr, $pos); } splice @indexes, $rand_index, 1; last if @keep == $subset_size; } if (@keep < $subset_size) { warn 'WARNING! Subset size [', scalar @keep, "] is less than the required size [$subset_size].\n"; } else { print "$_\n" for @locations[sort { $a <=> $b } @keep]; } untie @locations; sub is_new_location { my ($sample, $min, $chr, $pos) = @_; return 1 unless $sample->{$chr}; for (@{$sample->{$chr}}) { return 0 if abs($_ - $pos) < $min; } return 1; } sub add_location { my ($sample, $chr, $pos) = @_; my $index = 0; for (@{$sample->{$chr}}) { last if $_ > $pos; ++$index; } splice @{$sample->{$chr}}, $index, 0, $pos; return; }