$field3=join("\t",@data[7,8,9,10,11]) #### #!/usr/bin/perl
$file = "fielded.txt"; open IN, "<", $file or die "Unable to open $file: $!"; while($line=) { @data=split(/\t/,$line); if ($data[2] eq "u") {$field1=$data[3]; print "\n$field1";} if ($data[2] eq "p") {$field2=$data[3]; print "$field2\n";} } close IN;