hi

a very basic question. how to read two files at the same time. Example: 

file a      file b

1 read a line from a
2 read a line from b 
3 read a line from a
4 read a line from b
...

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since the files are too large and i have not enough memory to store my files i am forced to do something like this but i hav realized that i don't know how to do this. If i have two nested while loops like this: 
while(<F1>){
  #read a line
  while(<F2>){
     #read a line
     last; # go back to the main loop, but how to continue from this p
+oint in the next iteration ?
  }
}

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how do i continue from where i stopped in the nested loop? Thank you

baxy

UPDATE: Thnx moritz ! that did it :)

In reply to reading two files in parallel by baxy77bax

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