Dear Monks,
I have 2 files and I want to open them and print the first line of the first line, then <tab> and then the first line of the second file, and so on...
I tried the following:
print "Please specify 2 filenames\n";
print "Filename 1:";
my $userfile1=<STDIN>;
chomp($userfile1);

print "Filename 2:";
my $userfile2=<STDIN>;
chomp($userfile2);

open OUT, ">CONCATENATED_FILES";
open (USER1, "<$userfile1") or die "Couldn't open file: $userfile1";
open (USER2, "<$userfile2") or die "Couldn't open file: $userfile2";
while(<USER1>)
{
    $line1=$_; 
    chomp $line1;
    print OUT $line1."\t";
    while(<USER2>)
    {
        $line2=$_; 
        chomp $line2;
        print OUT $line2."\n";
    }

}
close USER1;
close USER2;
close OUT;

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but without success...What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Use 2 files and print each line of each one side-by-side by Anonymous Monk

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