#! /usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use warnings; # fixedValueColumn.pl $input $out_file1 "expression" "iterate [yes|no]" my ($input, $out_file1, $expression, $iterate) = @ARGV; my $i = 0; my $numeric = 0; die "Check arguments\n" unless @ARGV == 4; open (DATA, "<$input") or die "Cannot open $input:$!\n"; open (OUT, ">$out_file1") or die "Cannot create $out_file1:$!\n"; if ($expression =~ m/^\d+$/) { $numeric = 1; $i = $expression; } while () { chop; if ($iterate eq "no") { print OUT "$_\t$expression\n"; } else { print OUT "$_\t$i\n" if $numeric == 1; print OUT "$_\t$expression-$i\n" if $numeric == 0; ++$i; } } close DATA; close OUT;