#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use 5.010; my $total = 0; while (){ chomp; my ($chr, $pos, $coverage) = split /\t/; $total += $coverage; } say $total; #------------------------- #data format: #chr positon_on_DNA coverage __DATA__ chr 1 2 chr 4 2 chr 7 5 chr 22 5 chr 24 6 chr 38 10 chr 44 10 chr 50 20 chr 57 25 chr 60 30 chr 65 30