#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my $n = shift; my $f = shift; my $v = shift; my @data; my %s; while (<>) { chomp; my @a = split(/\t/); push @data, [@a]; $s{$a[$f]} += $a[$v]; } my @top_n = (sort { $s{$b} <=> $s{$a} } keys %s )[ 0 .. $n - 1 ]; my %top_n = map { $_ => 1 } @top_n; my %index; for my $i (0 .. $#data) { unless ($top_n{$data[$i][$f]}) { my $val = $data[$i][$v]; $data[$i][$v] = 0; $data[$i][$f] = 'OTHER'; my $k = join("\t", @{$data[$i]}); if (defined($index{$k})) { $data[$index{$k}][$v] += $val; $data[$i][$v] = undef; } else { $data[$i][$v] = $val; $index{$k} = $i; } } } for (@data) { if (defined($_->[$v])) { print join("\t", @$_), "\n"; } }