Here is the code I have for opening the file and parsing the tab
@ molecules and @locus are text files which are loaded into arrays

my @locus_small = ();
my $line;

foreach $line (@locus) {

    my @tokens = split(/\t+/, $line);
    unless(scalar @tokens < 6) {
    push(@locus_small, "$tokens[0]\t$tokens[1]\t");
    }
}

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Then I search and print the @found which is based on locus_small but I want the @locus which matched.

So really what I want to do is only search a few columns for a match but print the whole row if there is a match.

foreach my $molecule (@molecules) {

    
    my @found = grep /\Q$molecule\E/i, @locus_small;
    
if (@found) {
        print OUTDATA  ($molecule, ": \n\t", join "\t", @found);
    }
}

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In reply to Re: Re: Parsing a tab delimited file by snowy
in thread Parsing a tab delimited file by snowy

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