Did you see that your program is producing an error message? It should be 'close', not 'Close' at the end

Some words on debugging. If you don't know what your program does, insert print statements to find out (or use Data::Dumper).

For example a simple print @output; before the foreach loop would have told you that @output is empty.

Then you could have looked at the previous loop where @output should have been filled. A print join('|',@fields),"\n"; or even better print Dumper(\@fields); (you also need a line use Data::Dumper for this) and print Dumper(\@output); at the end of the loop would have given you surprising results. If you want to learn something, please do the above, look at the result and think about it. If you don't find the solution, read the spoiler below.

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After you solved the first problem you will see that there is a further problem, you are getting only the result of the last line in file1. The ouput of the prints or Dumper lines should give you a clue again, if not read the next spoiler

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In reply to Re^3: General program and related problems by jethro
in thread General program and related problems by micky744monk

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