use autodie; open (my $out, '>', 'outfile.csv'); open (my $in1, '<', 'infile1.csv'); open (my $in2, '<', 'infile2.csv'); while ( defined (my $line = <$in1>) ) { chomp $line; print {$out} $line; chomp(my $in2_line = <$in2>); my @f = split m/,/, $in2_line; print {$out} ',' . $f[1] . "\n"; } close $in1; close $in2; close $out;