use strict; use warnings; my $name = ''; my %id_list; open (STDIN,"perl first_program.pl|") || die "$!"; open (OUT, ">", "out.txt") || die "$!"; while( my $line_in = ) { line_in =~ m/^([^\t]*)(?:[^\|]*\|){3}([^\|]*)/; unless($name eq $1) { %id_list = (); $name = $1; } next if $id_list{$2}++; print OUT "$line_in"; }