I'm trying to open multiple files at once time, to go through each line one by one across every file. That is, read line1 of file1, then line1 of file2 then line1 of file3 (if there's only three files), then repeated again except for line2 of each file, etc... I realize that you can open multiple files at one time simply by doing something like so: 
while ($line1 = <FILE1> ||
           $line2 = <FILE2> ||
           $line3 = <FILE3>) {
     #do stuff with each line
}

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The problem is, that i don't know how many files will be given to the program and would like to name the file handles as above. Is there a way to use variables in file handles? So it will check how many files are given, then name each handle accordingly? Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. =)

In reply to Naming file handles with variables? by sinee

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