#! perl use strict; use warnings; my $in_file = 'input.txt'; my %out_files; open(my $in, '<', $in_file) or die "Cannot open file '$in_file' for reading: $!"; while (my $line = <$in>) { my ($datum, $type) = split ' ', $line; unless (exists $out_files{$type}) { my $filename = $in_file . $type . '.txt'; open(my $fh, '>>', $filename) or die "Cannot open file '$filename' for appending: $!"; $out_files{$type} = $fh; } print { $out_files{$type} } $datum . "\n"; } for (keys %out_files) { close $out_files{$_} or die "Cannot close the '$out_files{$_}' output file: $!"; } close $in or die "Cannot close file '$in_file': $!";