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in thread problem in for loop

Then I still have not understood what you want to achieve. Which links are to be merged? Can you show what the desired output for this example would be? What is the threshold you are using?

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Re^6: problem in for loop
by MVRS (Acolyte) on May 16, 2013 at 08:31 UTC

    threshold=1000

    Input

    link1 myco1 16 13013 color=chr1

    link1 myco2 7419028 7432025 color=chr1

    link2 myco1 13016 31245 color=chr1

    link2 myco2 7432026 7450255 color=chr1

    link3 myco1 31569 50386 color=chr1

    link3 myco2 7450876 7469693 color=chr1

    link4 myco1 53241 82019 color=chr1

    link4 myco2 7472518 7501295 color=chr1

    link5 myco1 82667 85039 color=chr1

    link5 myco2 7511397 7513769 color=chr1

    link6 myco1 85052 162535 color=chr1

    link6 myco2 7513770 7591243 color=chr1

    output

    link1 myco1 16 13016

    link1 myco2 7419028 7450255

    link2 myco1 13016 31569

    link2 myco2 7432026 7469693

    link3 myco1 31569 53241

    link3 myco2 7450876 7501295

    link4 myco1 53241 82667

    link4 myco2 7472518 7513769

    link5 myco1 82667 85052

    link5 myco2 7511397 7591243

    link6 myco1 85052 3519888

    link6 myco2 7513770 6200895

      So you want

      if (y-a)&&(z-c)< threshold print as following link1 x a # not b as you stated above? link1 w d

      Then my next proposal is

      use strict; use warnings; my $threshold = 1000; # being lazy: my @file_array = map { [ split /\s+/ ] } <DATA>; for( my $i=0; $i<@file_array-2; $i+=2 ) { if( $file_array[$i ][3]-$file_array[$i+2][2] < $threshold and $file_array[$i+1][3]-$file_array[$i+3][2] < $threshold ) { print "$file_array[$i ][0] $file_array[$i ][2] $file_array[$ +i+2][2]\n"; print "$file_array[$i+1][0] $file_array[$i+1][2] $file_array[$ +i+3][3]\n"; } else { # not sure print "$file_array[$i ][0] $file_array[$i ][2] $file_array[$ +i ][3]\n"; print "$file_array[$i+1][0] $file_array[$i+1][2] $file_array[$ +i+1][3]\n"; } } print "$file_array[-2][0] $file_array[-2][2] $file_array[-2][3]\n"; print "$file_array[-1][0] $file_array[-1][2] $file_array[-1][3]\n"; __DATA__ link1 myco1 16 13013 color=chr1 link1 myco2 7419028 7432025 color=chr1 link2 myco1 13016 31245 color=chr1 link2 myco2 7432026 7450255 color=chr1 link3 myco1 31569 50386 color=chr1 link3 myco2 7450876 7469693 color=chr1 link4 myco1 53241 82019 color=chr1 link4 myco2 7472518 7501295 color=chr1 link5 myco1 82667 85039 color=chr1 link5 myco2 7511397 7513769 color=chr1 link6 myco1 85052 162535 color=chr1 link6 myco2 7513770 7591243 color=chr1 link7 myco1 3519888 3527802 color=chr10 link7 myco2 6192981 6200895 color=chr10 link8 myco1 3531711 3535088 color=chr10 link8 myco2 6200982 6204356 color=chr10 link9 myco1 3537764 3568351 color=chr10 link9 myco2 6204393 6234981 color=chr10 link10 myco1 3585050 3670398 color=chr10 link10 myco2 6236328 6321680 color=chr10

      However, this gives wrong results for link6 but I do not understand your example as the threshold condition seems not to be met??