use warnings; use strict; while () { chomp; my @cols = split /\s+/, $_, 6; print "@cols[1,3,5]\n"; } __DATA__ 1 F 14 0.06 OPEN 2 F 216 0.97 CONTACT 4 F 326 1.47 LEFT 5 F 232 1.05 MID 6 F 54 0.24 RIGHT 7 F 6 0.03 AT 8 F 6 0.03 AT_GHT 11 F 184 0.83 5DBLT 12 F 151 0.68 2P5D 21 P 21009 94.64 Bin P