use warnings;
use strict;
# I am using the latest stable version of Perl for this exercise
use 5.30.0;

while (<>)
{
  # Skip lines ending with an empty field
  next if substr($_,-2) eq "\t\n";
  
  # Remove "\n"
  chomp;
 
  # Split matching lines into fields on "\t", creating @fields
  my @fields=split(/\t/,$_);

  # Copy only the desired fields from @fields to create a new
  # line in TSV format
  # This can be done in one simple step in Perl, using
  # array slices and the join() function
  my $new_line=join("\t",@fields[2,3,12..18,25..28,31]);

  # ...
}