The main problem with the first two solutions presented is that they rely on the glob sort order so that 'RESULTS_FILE2' will be between 'RESULTS_FILE19' and 'RESULTS_FILE20', etc.

This will glob the files in the correct order: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

@ARGV = map glob( 'RESULTS_FILE' . ( '[0-9]' x $_ ) ), 1 .. 4;

my @headers = ( 'NAME', @ARGV );

my %data;
while ( <> ) {
    my ( $name, $value ) = split;
    push @{ $data{ $name } }, $value;
    }

print join( "\t", @headers ), "\n";

for my $name ( keys %data ) {
    print join( "\t", $name, @{ $data{ $name } } ), "\n";
    }

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