my %sorted_reads=();
foreach my $hit_file (@hits){
        open(HITS, "<".$hit_file);
        my @hit = <HITS>;
        foreach my $line (@hit){
                chomp($line);
                next unless($line);
                my ($name,$start,$stop,$direction,$align_q,$align_s,$error) = split /\t/, $line;
                %sorted_reads($name => $error);
        }
}