Where you have
if ($sid eq $sidtwobinder[0])
you are not getting a match because $sid is "1" and $sidtwobinder[0] is "sid 1" (note the two spaces between sid and 1). You could change your @sid array to contain the whole text. I don't know how big your dataset is but it is inefficient to loop through @unpairedSidBinder inside the outer loop. You could split it into two stages, saving the matches in a hash of arrays - something like:
my @sid = ('sid 1','sid 2','sid 7','sid 9'); my %hoa; foreach my $el (@unpairedSidBinder){ my ( $key, $data ) = split /\|/,$el; push( @{ $hoa{$key} }, $data ); } foreach my $key (@sid) { my $ary = $hoa{$key} or next; my $temp = join(" ", @$ary ); print "$key|$temp\n"; }

In reply to Re: concatenating elements of an array in twos by tangent
in thread concatenating elements of an array in twos by Sandy_Bio_Perl

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