#!/usr/bin/perl my $delimiter = "\t"; my $colcount = 11; my $running_field_count = 0; while (my $line = <>) { chomp $line; print $line; my @f = split /$delimiter/, $line; if (scalar(@f) != 1) { $running_field_count += scalar(@f); } if ($running_field_count >= $colcount) { $running_field_count = 0; print "\n"; } }