I agree to a point, but you want to iterate all of the matches for each line. Wouldn't you need a way to restart the <$match_in> iterator in your example? I think the code would be better written:

...
my @matches = <$match_in>;
...
while (my $lines = <$fh_in>) {
  for my $matches ( @matches ) {
...

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I wasn't really sure if I was right or not, so I whipped up a script quick.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

open my $fh1, '<', 'file_iterator1';
open my $fh2, '<', 'file_iterator2';


while ( my $line1 = <$fh1> ) {
    chomp $line1;
    while ( my $line2 = <$fh2> ) {
        chomp $line2;
        print "$line1:\t$line2\n";
    }
}

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file_iterator1:

one
two
three

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file_iterator2:

ay
bee
see

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Output:

one: ay
one: bee
one: see

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Notice that the second file iterator doesn't run through again for the 'two' and 'three' lines.

    -Bryan

In reply to Re^2: "Use of uninitialized value in print" but why ??? by mrborisguy
in thread "Use of uninitialized value in print" but why ??? by ultibuzz

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