use strict; use warnings; use Tie::File; my @fnames = @ARGV; my @fhandlers; for my $fname (@fnames) { tie my @farr, 'Tie::File', $fname or die $!; push @fhandlers, \@farr; } # Traverse the files: for my $i (0..$#{$fhandlers[0]}){ my @nextvals = map {$_->[$i]} @fhandlers[0..$#fhandlers]; # @nextvals has the next line of each file } untie $_ for (@fhandlers);