The Unix way to do it would be to use join. The commands cut and paste might also be helpful here. Note that the 'merge' operation you are performing is equivalent to a relational join.

Another possibility it to try to use the DBD::CSV module (via DBI). Then you can perform the join using a SQL select statement ala 

SELECT file1.*, file2.array, file2.value
FROM file1, file2
WHERE file1.chr = file2.chr and file1.coord = file2.coord;

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With either the Unix join approach or the SQL approach you'll have to decide what happens when file2 doesn't contain a row corresponding to file1 and vice-versa.

In reply to Re: merge files by column (revisted) by pc88mxer
in thread merge files by column (revisted) by j1n3l0

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