in reply to Re^2: Deleting a columnheader
in thread Deleting a columnheader

You were almost there. Just join the array back. And note that map{$_}(0..4) is just the same as 0..4 itself, so you can write:
print {$FILE4} join("\t", (split /\t/, <$FILE1>)[0 .. 4]),"\n";

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Re^4: Deleting a columnheader
by bluray (Sexton) on Oct 07, 2011 at 17:16 UTC
    Thanks Choroba, It is perfect now.