Here's another, 

open my $out, '>', 'ABC' or die $!;
{
    local $_;

    open my $A, '<', 'A' or die $!;
    open my $B, '<', 'B' or die $!;
    open my $C, '<', 'C' or die $!;

    no warnings 'uninitialized';

    while ($_ = <$A> . <$B> . <$C>) {
        s/\n//g;
        print $out $_, "\n";
    }
}
close $out or warn $!;

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That will let the files have different numbers of lines. Memory use is small, and independent of file size.

Update: Repaired the thinko blazar++ spotted. Empty lines are not a problem - we don't chomp, so they retain newlines until we s/// them gone. I like blazar's extension to different numbers of files.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: parallel reading by Zaxo
in thread parallel reading by azaria

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