for my $file (@files) { my $ok = open (my $fh, "<", "$dir/$file.txt"); if (not $ok) { warn "Couldn't open file '$dir/$file.txt' ($!)\n"; next; } while (my $line = <$fh> ) { chomp $line; my @fields = split("\t",$line); my $key = $hash{"$fields[0].$fields[1]"} or next; $result{$key}{$file} += $fields[3]; } close $fh; } my $hline = join("\t",@files); print qq|\t$hline\n|; for my $key ( sort keys %result ) { my $amt = $result{$key}; my @cols = map { $amt->{$_} ? sprintf("%.1f",$amt->{$_}) : 'n/a' } @files; my $line = join("\t",@cols); print qq|$key\t$line\n|; }