my @fields = split /\t/, $tsv_line; if ( $fields[0] eq 'SEQ' ) { print "Header of Predictions\n"; } elsif ( join("", @fields[0,1]) =~ /^\w\w$/) { push @ProteinSeq, $fields[0]; push @Prediction, $fields[1]; printf "Amino acid is: %s and Prediction is: %s\n", @fields[0,1]; }