Hi gurus, I really hope someone can help me, i've got a text file containing 200 rows, i'd like for the 200 rows to be split into 4 outputs of 50, is this possible? if so how? I am a newbie to perl and this is my attempt in progress: 
open (CQATEXTFILE, 'test.txt');

my $counter = 0;
while (<FILE>) {
  if ( ++$counter % 5 == 0 ) {
 @results=split '\t',$results;

push (@id,$results[0]);
    $_ = defined($_) ? $_ : '' for @results; # deal with empty fields
    $atom{$results[0]}=$results[1];
    $category{$results[0]}=$results[2];
    $title{$results[0]}=$results[3];

    $counter++;

  }
}

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In reply to Group every 50 rows by perlnoobster

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