in reply to How to calculate sum of a column by window size based on another column

#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my %total; my $limit = 20; while (<DATA>){ chomp; my ($chr, $pos, $coverage) = split /\t/; $limit += 20 while $pos > $limit; # found a new limit and the hash has prior data # (i.e., not the case of the first record and no data in hash yet) if (! exists $total{$limit} && %total) { # there is only 1 key in the hash print join("\t", each %total), "\n"; undef %total; } $total{$limit} += $coverage; } print join("\t", each %total), "\n"; __DATA__ chr 1 2 chr 4 2 chr 7 5 chr 22 5 chr 24 6 chr 38 10 chr 44 10 chr 50 20 chr 57 25 chr 60 30 chr 65 30 chr 105 30
Output
20 9 40 21 60 85 80 30 120 30

Update: used the 'each' keyword to feed join