Hello, I need to parse a file and print to two files. The records go to different files
based on whether the values in field[0] has a dash and a number at the end of the string
or not. Example: 10002TU or 10002TU-2. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;


open(my $reg_out, ">C:/Documents and Settings/mydir/Desktop/RegularOli
+gos.txt");
open(my $irreg_out, ">C:/Documents and Settings/mydir/Desktop/Irregula
+rOligos.txt");
open(my $out, ">C:/Documents and Settings/mydir/Desktop/mfrp.txt");
my $first_line = <$in>;
chomp $first_line;

while(<DATA>){
    chomp;
    my @fields = split /\t/;
    my $maid = $fields[0];
    my $forward = $fields[1];
    my $reverse = $fields[2];
    my $probe = $fields[3];
    if ($probe =~ /^\d{5}TU|TD$/){
        print $reg_out "$maid\t$forward\t$reverse\t$probe\n";
    }
    else{
        print $irreg_out "$maid\t$forward\t$reverse\t$probe\n";
    }
}
#close $in;
close $irreg_out;
close $reg_out;

__DATA__
10002TU    AGACATTACCTGTGAGACACCTTTC    GCCTCCACCTCAGAGTCAG    TCCATGG
+GAAGGATCTCCGTGAAATCA
10002TU-2    GCTCCAGCTAGAAGAGAATCC    CCCACCAGGGCTGTGTAAG    CCTGTGAGA
+TAGTACAGCTGAAGAGTTGGC
10002TD    TGTGTTGATTCTCAGCCTCTTG    GACGGAGCACATAGGCAAAG    TCTGTTCTT
+CTCAGCTGTCTTTGTTGCTGC
10003TU    CAGCAAGCCCTGAGGTGTG    CAGTGAACTGAGAAAGACGAGAGG TGCAAGTCCAG
+ATGGAGGCCACC
10174TU-2    ACCTGAACAGCCTGACATGAAC    TGGGATGGAGGGCAAAGTC    CCACCTAG
+TATGACCCAGCACACCTCC

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Any direction will be appreciated.

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