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The OP is a biologist, not a SW person.

The OP doesn't say that so I assume that you know them personally?

- something simple -

The OP says they have "an array with 5 elements" but you chose to store that in a string and then split it.    How is that simpler?

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Re^7: making presence/absence table from a hash of arrays
by Marshall (Canon) on Sep 07, 2011 at 03:45 UTC
    The OP doesn't say that so I assume that you know them personally?
    In the level of thread that I directly replied to, the Original Poster says: "I am a PhD genome biologist still getting to grips with the finer details of Perl".

    The OP says they have "an array with 5 elements" but you chose to store that in a string and then split it.
    Well, I certainly did focus on the OP's description of the output: 
    one two three four five
row_1 = 1 1 0 0 1
row_2 = 0 1 0 1 0
row_3 = 1 0 1 1 1
etc...

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    It looked to me like there would be line with the column names - I certainly was thinking about a normal CSV type header. If not so what? We are focusing on the wrong detail.

    I think we are getting bogged down into small details... You posted an excellent solution as did I. Let's leave it at that.

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