You could simplify your code a lot by working with hashes instead of arrays.
use List::Util 'sum'; while (<TABFILE>) { my @fields = split /\t/; my $identifier = shift @fields; my ($category, $group) = ($identifier =~ /^TS(\d+)(\w+)/); warn "Parse error", return unless $category && $group; # This may not be what you're doing, but change # this to do the calculations you need to do $sums{$group}->{$category} += sum(@fields); $totals{$group}->{$category} += @fields; } # Another way of cleaning up bad data foreach (keys %sums) { $sums{$_}->{CCFN30NT} += delete $sums{$_}->{CCCFN30NT}; $totals{$_}->{CCFN30NT} += delete $totals{$_}->{CCCFN30NT}; ... }
Also note that Excel can work with CSV or tab-delimited files natively, and more importantly, you can use formulas in Excel to calculate a lot of this. Your script need only output an Excel formula in a field (preceded with an equal sign) instead of calculating the value in advance.

In reply to Re: Use of uninitialized value in array element by Fastolfe
in thread Use of uninitialized value in array element by dimmesdale

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