#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use List::Util qw(sum); my @array = (); while () { next if /start/; chomp; my (undef,undef,undef,$col4,undef) = split (/\s*/, $_,5); push (@array, $col4); } my $sum = sum(@array); print $sum,"\/"; my $n = scalar(@array); print $n,"\n"; print "average = ", $sum/$n,"\n"; __DATA__ chr start end length foo e r t 6 r 4 A 6 4 f 4 3 4 5 f L 0 L 2 f 0 0 0 1 0 3 4 5 6 7