#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my @array1=( 'small_motif_b 789 799', 'small_motif_a 811 821', 'small_motif_i 822 832', 'tall_motif_a 833 880', 'small_motif_a 881 891', 'small_motif_b 892 902', 'small_motif_a 903 913', 'tall_motif_b 914 961', 'small_motif_a 962 972', 'tall_motif_c 973 1020', ); my @array2=( 'NC_010109.1 NTRFinder . . . ID=NTR-a1;Parent=NTR-a;Name=motif_small_b', 'NC_010109.1 NTRFinder . . . ID=NTR-a2;Parent=NTR-a;Name=motif_small_a', 'NC_010109.1 NTRFinder . . . ID=NTR-a3;Parent=NTR-a;Name=motif_small_i', 'NC_010109.1 NTRFinder . . . ID=NTR-a4;Parent=NTR-a;Name=tall_motif_a', 'NC_010109.1 NTRFinder . . . ID=NTR-a5;Parent=NTR-a;Name=motif_small_a', 'NC_010109.1 NTRFinder . . . ID=NTR-a6;Parent=NTR-a;Name=motif_small_b', 'NC_010109.1 NTRFinder . . . ID=NTR-a7;Parent=NTR-a;Name=motif_small_a', 'NC_010109.1 NTRFinder . . . ID=NTR-a8;Parent=NTR-a;Name=tall_motif_b', 'NC_010109.1 NTRFinder . . . ID=NTR-a9;Parent=NTR-a;Name=motif_small_a', 'NC_010109.1 NTRFinder . . . ID=NTR-a10;Parent=NTR-a;Name=tall_motif_c', ); for my $pos (0..$#array2) { my @l=split(/ /,$array2[$pos],3); splice(@l,2,0,$array1[$pos]); $array2[$pos]=join(' ',@l); } print Dumper(\@array2);