#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;

my $file1 = 'File1.txt';
my $file2 = 'File2.txt';

open(my $in1, '<', $file1)
    or die "Cannot open file '$file1' for reading: $!";

open(my $in2, '<', $file2)
    or die "Cannot open file '$file2' for reading: $!";

print scalar <$in1>;
<$in2>;

while (my $line1 = <$in1>)
{
    my @fields1 = get_fields($line1);

    defined(my $line2 = <$in2>)
        or die "Data missing in file '$file2': $!";

    my @fields2 = get_fields($line2);
    my @out     = @fields1;

    for my $i (5 .. $#fields1)
    {
        if ($fields1[$i] ne 'REF' &&
            $i <= $#fields2       &&
            $fields2[$i] ne 'REF')
        {
            $out[$i] = $fields2[$i];
        }
    }
    
    @out = map { "'$_'" } @out;
    print '[', join(', ', @out), "]\n";
}

close $in2
    or die "Cannot close file '$file2': $!";

close $in1
    or die "Cannot close file '$file1': $!";

sub get_fields
{
    my ($line) = @_;

    chomp $line;
    my @fields = split /\s*,\s*/, $line;
    s{ ^ \[? ' }{}x for @fields;
    s{ ' \]? $ }{}x for @fields;

    return @fields;
}

##</code><code>##

13:39 >perl 959_SoPW.pl
['CHROM', 'POS', 'REF', 'ALT', 'LIST', 'SAMPLE_1A', 'SAMPLE_2A', 'SAMPLE_3A']
['M', '16', 'T', 'C', 'C', 'REF', 'C', 'REF']
['M', '381', 'T', 'A', 'A', 'A', 'REF', 'REF']
['M', '529', 'A', 'G', 'G', 'REF', 'G', 'REF']

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