Create tab-delimited file of outputs - Perl

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Title is very broad, but here's an outline of what I have done so far:

  • I have multiple subdirectories containing multiple *.fna files of DNA sequences
  • I've been able to traverse these subdirectories and create a tab-delimited text file (i.e. the association file) that shows the contents of each folder, as such:

Organism A 1.fna
Organism B 2.fna 3.fna 4.fna
Organism C 5.fna 6.fna

Here is what I would like to accomplish:

  • I would like to loop through every file, perform a task to its contents, and write this data into a different tab-delimited file. I would like to utilize the association file to locate each of the files to perform a task, but I have no clue to how to get started.

Any help is appreciated in advance! Thank you!!!

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Open the association file and split each line into an array using 'tab' as the delimiter. Starting with array element @_[2] on each line, open the referenced file and do work, then write the output to a second file.