The first problem is that you are opening the file handles: F1 and F2 for writing. And you specifiy that for example the files named $file1 and $file2 should be deleted and new files should be started with those names - so what you have is basically nonsense code. You can't read a file that you just "zero'ed" with empty contents!

#Maybe this what you mean????
open (F1, '<' ,$file1) or die "Cannot open file $file1 for reading\n";
open (F2, '<', $file2) or die "Cannot open file $file2 for reading\n";

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If you are trying to compare or match files on a line by line basis, this can become complex.

What do you want to happen if say file1 has fewer lines than file2?

I didn't test this, but it appears that your "while statement" does:

while ( <F1>, <F2> )
{  
   # throw away a line from file F1 - never to be used
   # end the loop if there are no more lines in F2
   # set $_ to the next line from F2

   # <F1> plays no role here - it is a No-Operation: NoOp
}

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So this simplifies into: 
while ( <F2> ) 
{
  # $_ is a line from $file2
}

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Which I suspect is not what you want. What do you want?

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

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