#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; open INFILE, "< $ARGV[0]" or die "Could not open file $ARGV[0]: $!"; until(eof INFILE) { my $fn = $ARGV[0]; open OUTFILE, "> $fn.filtered" or die "Could not open file $fn.filtered $!"; while() { my @line = split /\t/; $line[0] =~ s/(.{1,6}).*/$1/; $line[3] =~ s/(.{1,6}).*/$1/; $line[6] = $line[6]."\n"; $_ = join("\t", $line[0], $line[1], $line[2], $line[3], $line[4], $line[5], $line[6]); print OUTFILE; } }