Untested code illustrating the algorithm described in my post above:
# opening file 1 # ... my %hash; while (my $line1=<TR>) { chomp($line1); my @ar = split(/\t/,$line1); $hash{$ar[1]} = $ar[3]; } close TR; open my $SC, "<", $file2 or die "Error blah blah... $!"; while (my $line2 = <$SC>) { my ($id, $val) = split /\t/, $line2; my $val_file1 = $hash{$id}; if ( $val > $val_file1 - $margin and $val < $val_file1 + $margin) +{ # print out something } } close $SC;
BTW, I basically kept your syntax almost unchanged for the first part and tried to improve it in accordance to good practices in the second part. Take a look at the differences.

In reply to Re: Sliding window perl program by Laurent_R
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