$fields[2] = $file;
my $locus = join "\t", @fields[0,1,2,3,4,5];

##</code><code>##

my $samples_list = join "\t", @samples;
print OUT "CHROM    POS    ID    REF    ALT    QUAL    $samples_list  
##</code><code>##

#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump 'pp';

# get .var files in current directory
my $path = '.'; 
opendir(DIR, $path);
my @files = sort grep { /\.var$/ } readdir(DIR); 
closedir(DIR);

# remove _suffix and .var extension
my @samples = map { m/^([^_]+).*\.var/ ; $1 } @files;
print "Samples are @samples\n";

# scan files and build hash
my %zygos = ();
my %info  = ();
my @header= ();
foreach my $i (0..$#files) {
  my $file = $files[$i];
  my $count = 0;
  print "Reading $file .. ";
  open IN, '<', $file or die "Could not open $file :$!";
  
  while (<IN>) {
    chomp;
    my @fields = split /\t/, $_;
    
    # extract header line
    if (/^#/){
      @header = @fields;
      next;
    }
        
    # pull out genotype
    my ($g,undef) = split ":",$fields[9];
    my $zyg = ($g eq '0/1') ? "HET" : "HOM";		
    
    # create hash key from first 6 fields
    my $id = join "\t", @fields[0..5];
    
    # build hashes
    $info{$id} = join "\t", @fields[10..$#fields];
    @{$zygos{$id}}[$i] = $zyg;   
    ++$count;
  }
  print "$count lines\n";
}
close IN;
print "Dump of \%zygos hash\n";
pp \%zygos;

# open output file
my $outfile = ($ARGV[0] || '').'merged.xls';
open OUT, '>', $outfile or die "Could not open OUTFILE";

# print header
my $col_header = join "\t", @header[0..5],@samples,@header[10..$#header];
print OUT $col_header."\n";

# print records
foreach my $id (sort keys %info) {
  # replace undef with ''
  my @zygos = map { $_ || ''} @{$zygos{$id}}[0..$#samples];
  print OUT join "\t",$id,@zygos,$info{$id};
  print OUT "\n";
}