I have a table with 40+ columns and 10000+ rows (bioinformaticians lol) and I have started programming in Perl few months ago. I want to write a program for performing some calculation on tables (which are in the 99% of the cases the output from various softwares). I need to able to : select the replicates per group, keep the replicates separated (es. cond A1/2/3 needs to be tested against Ctrl1/2/3 not against B1/2/3) and to perform the calculation element-wise (i.e t-test needs to be performed using the first element in the three replicate in A vs 3 replicate of ctrl so I thought the best convenient data structure would be AoA or HoA. the column names are like "somethingcostant_A1" so the first part of the string is common to every bunch of column. ... {blah blah} ...

Please, don't describe your data; show your data! Ie. Post a small sample of the raw input; and the expected output from that sample input.

Anything else leaves us trying to reverse engineer your words -- which are always ambiguous -- and/or your code -- which is wrong, else you wouldn't be posting.

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