...also you should be:

1) Using the three arg form of open().

2) You should NOT be using a bareword filehandle.

This is the modern way to open a file:

open my $F1, '<', $file1 
    or die "Cannot open file $file1 \n";

while (my $line = <$F1>) {
 ...
}

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And this:

while (defined(my $f1 = <F1>) && defined(my $f2 = <F2>)) {
   ...
}

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should be more like:

while ( 
        defined(my $line1 = <$F1>) 
        and defined(my $line2 = <$F2>) 
      ) 
{
   ...
}

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In reply to Re: Reading two text files parallelly... by 7stud
in thread Reading two text files parallelly... by biswanath_c

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