name1 1481.100 1436.550 1460.410 1444.460 1049.120 1076.890 1085.500 1053.100 name2 1978.700 1949.910 1734.030 1694.530 1930.000 2005.530 1696.960 1844.810 name3 ... #### my $Name = ""; my $Value1 = 0; my @files = glob ('*.txt'); sub log10 { my $n = shift; return log($n)/log(10); } open (MYFILE, '>data.txt'); foreach my $file (@files) { #print "$file\n"; $test = "$file"; open (TEST,"$test") || die "couldn't open the file YEASTFASTA:$!"; while () { my $line = $_; if ($_=~/^\d+[_]\w+\s+(\S+)\s+(\S+)\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+\S+\s+\S+.*/) { #$Name = $1; $Value1 = $2; $LogValue = log10($Value1); print MYFILE "$LogValue"; #print "d $LogValue \n"; } print MYFILE "$_"; } close TEST || die "can't close:$!"; close (MYFILE); } #### 1.37852508154491 name1 23.907 15.022 25.234 22.573 21.541 13.972 25.076 17.099 YLR331C 3.17058438193919 name2 1481.100 1436.550 1460.410 1444.460 1049.120 1076.890 1085.500 1053.100 #### name1 1.3785250815449 log(value) log(value)...(log of all the values) name1 log(value) log(value)...(log of all the values)