Hii all
if($line =~ /^HWI.*/)
{
    my @fields=split ":",$line;
    $id= $fields[5].":".$fields[6];
    print $fields[5]," ",$fields[6]; <>;
    $id =~ s/\s+//;
    $hash1{$id}=$line;
  }else{
    $hash1{$id}.= $line;
  }

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This is the code i have used to get only 5 th and 6th fields
my input is smthg like this
HWI-1KL120:99:C0C9MACXX:6:1101:2105:2123 0 chr5 75483987 0 82M3I16M * 0 0
i want only 2105 2123 i,e 5th and 6th fields but this is printing entire line starting from 2105 2123
how to get only those fields?

In reply to problem in splitting the line by devi

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