Here's a crazy bit of perl
perl -lane '
BEGIN {
@criteria = (
sub {shift() < -0.5},
sub {shift() > 1},
sub {shift() > 2},
)
}
@filtered = ();
for $i (0..$#F) {
push @filtered, join ";", grep {$criteria[$i]->($_)} split /;/, $F[$i];
}
print join " ", @filtered;
' file | column -t
-0.6;-0.56 10.4;5.1 3;4
-0.9 2.4 10
This more accurately reflects your requirements
perl -lane '
sub criteria {
$_[0] < -0.5 and
$_[1] > 1 and
$_[2] > 2
}
@data = map {[split /;/]} @F;
@filtered = map {[]} @F;
for ($i = 0; $i < @{$data[0]}; $i++) {
@tuple = map {$data[$_][$i]} (0..$#F);
if (criteria(@tuple)) {
push @{$filtered[$_]}, $tuple[$_] for (0..$#F);
}
}
print join " ", map {join ";", @$_} @filtered;
' file