I have a question regarding perl that I have been working on the past week. I have text file with 200 columns and the same number of rows per column. The first column is the names of each row. I would like to split the file every 3 columns and export each to a new file. The caveat is, the first column(name) need to be merged to each file. Is it possible to do this in perl?

I can split the file using awk in bash but i'm unable to merge the first column to each new file. I know perl has a split function but that splits rows not columns. I have tried a few perl scripts but they are dependent on specific column numbers, so as ideas has dried up, I turn to you, Monks.

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