I had this lying around. You may be able to adapt it to your needs. See also perldoc:perlrun and the -F + -a options. 
cat ./bin/ncut
#!/usr/bin/perl -l -a -w -s -F/\t/ -n

=pod

ncut '-f=field1,field4,total*' file.tsv

ncut - named and ordered field cut

can sneak in perl regexp stuff

=cut

BEGIN {
        die "use -f=name1,name2" unless $f;
        my @f = split /,/, $f;
        { no warnings 'once';
          $_ = <>; }
        chomp;
        @F = split /\t/;
        #$re = join '|', @f; @keep = grep { $F[$_] =~ /($re)$/ } 0..$#
+F;
        for $f (@f) {
                push @keep, grep { $F[$_] =~ /$f/ } 0..$#F;
        }
        print join "\t", @F[@keep];
}

print join "\t", @F[@keep];

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