I'm a beginning perl programmer attempting to parse out biological data. The program gives me the data parsed out how I want it, only it does so in one long column. I want it to be in succesive columns after each reiteration of the loop, but am unsure how to do so other than assigning each pass to a separate variable and then formating the printing-a very messy deal. Any ideas? my code thus far:
open (FILE, "brca1_prettybase.txt");
our @data='';
@data = <FILE>;
close (FILE);

$i=0;
while ($i <=300) {
#for ($i=0; $i<=89; $i++) {
  # @zz=$data[$i];
@zz=splice(@data, 0, 89);
foreach $_(@zz){
   $a='';
   $b='';
   $c='';
   $d='';
   ($a, $b, $c, $d) = split(/[\t]/,$_);
    $qq=join ('/',$c,$d);
    push (@qqq, $qq);
    #print "$b\n";
   }
print "$a\n";
print @qqq;
$i++;
}

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Fixed code tags - dvergin 2003-07-07

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