Hello,
I am a beginner with perl. I have a perl program to calculate the distance between 5 atoms or more.
i have an array which looks like this:
6.324 32.707 50.379
5.197 32.618 46.826
4.020 36.132 46.259
7.131 38.210 45.919
6.719 38.935 42.270
2.986 39.221 41.892
-0.269 37.184 41.565
I want to assign these values with Xi(column 1), Yi(column 2)and Zi(column 3). Suppose the first row values are (Xi,Yi,Zi), then the second row values will be (Xj, Yj, Zj) I want to calculate the distance using the formula
$dist = sqrt(($Xi-$Xj)**2+($Yi-$Yj)**2+($Zi-$Zj)**2) between row1/row2, row1/row3, row1/row4 ......so on.... till row6/row7
so its an iterative calculation. probably i shud us a for loop, and another forloop within the previous for loop. i am totally stuck.
till now my perl program looks like this:
open(IN, "/Users/anu/out.pl") or die "$!";
while (my $line = <IN>) {
chomp($line);
my @array = (split (/\s+/, $line))[6, 7, 8];
print "@array\n";
}
close(IN);
I dnt know wat to do..please help
Thank you