Since this is currently the top node of the past 24 hours, I'll comment.

Sometimes Perl is not the best tool for the job. Awk ...

I strongly disagree. Perl is a replacement for awk and sed and can do everything they can, and much, much more. tobyink pointed out IO::All - and while this module may not be in the core, note that CPAN is one of Perl's greatest strengths.

If you're familiar enough with awk to whip up this script that's fine, and it's certainly interesting to see how it's done in other languages (though this isn't AwkMonks), but consider that the OP may already not be very familiar with Perl, and throwing yet another new language into the mix is unlikely to be the most efficient approach in the long run.

In reply to Re^4: Split tab-separated file into separate files, based on column name (open on demand) by haukex
in thread Split tab-separated file into separate files, based on column name by Anonymous Monk

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