use strict; use warnings; my @data = ; chomp @data; my $cluster = 1; while (@data){ my $pair = shift @data; print "\ncluster$cluster\n$pair\n"; my (undef, $id1, undef, $id2) = split /[. ]/, $pair; my $i = 0; while ($i < @data){ if ($data[$i] =~ /$id1/ || $data[$i] =~ /$id2/){ $pair = splice @data, $i, 1; print "$pair\n"; (undef, $id1, undef, $id2) = split /[. ]/, $pair; $i = 0; }else{ $i++; } } $cluster++; } __DATA__ ID5141.C1665 ID5141.C2448 ID5141.C1253 ID5144.C2039 ID5141.C1596 ID5144.C1956 ID5141.C1906 ID5144.C2149 ID5141.C1221 ID5144.C1956 ID5141.C2149 ID5141.C2386 ID5141.C2039 ID5142.C1221 ID5141.C5887 ID5141.C7685 ID5141.C1005 ID5142.C2808 ID5141.C1046 ID5141.C1596 ID5141.C2386 ID5141.C4990 ID5141.C7685 ID5141.C4888