How would I open two files and join then into one file with file 1 output being column 1 and file 2 being column 2. for example:
file 1 looks like this
123455 c c
323333 c c
543212 c c
and
file 2 looks like this
fi1234 4 3
dtt234 4 3
3555t2 4 3
and i would want my joined file to look like this
123455 c c fi1234 4 3
323333 c c dtt234 4 3
543212 c c 3555t2 4 3
Ive tried something like the following which did not work.

 
open(IN, "file1") || or die;
open(IN2, "file2") || or die;
open(OUT, ">>joinfile") || or die;
for my $file1 (<IN>) {
       chomp $file1;
       for my $file2 (<IN2>) {
              chomp $file2;
              print OUT "$file1 $file2\n";
       }
}

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This printed everything in file 1 three times. Thanks for any help.

In reply to joining to files into columns by Anonymous Monk

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