my $_dir = 'C:/Documents and Settings/mydir/Desktop/current/Test_Files'; open(my $out, ">C:/Documents and Settings/mydir/Desktop/current/Test_Files/data.txt"); opendir my $dh, "$dir"; # read files in dir #my $first_line = ; #chomp $first_line; #my $i=1; while(my $f = readdir($dh)){ chomp; my @fields = split /\t/; my $well_position = $fields[0]; my $sample = $fields[1]; $sample =~ /(\d+)(.*)/; my $barcode = $fields[2]; my $block_id = $fields[3]; my $name = substr($block_id,11); my $outfile = "$out$name"; print $outfile "$well_position\t$1\t$2\t$barcode\t$name\n"; } closedir($dh);