Hello, this is a very naive question from someone who forgot how to use Perl..here is my problem:

i have two tab delimited text files, each one has 2 columns. File 1: line 1: goes | go; line 2: leaves | leave; line 3: sees | see; line 4: eats | eat. And File 2: line 1: went | go; line 2: jumped | jump; line 3: saw | see; line 4: ate | eat.

I need to create File 3, which contains all verbs which are contained BOTH in the 2nd column of file 1 and in the 2nd column of file 2, and combines their information. I would look like this, 3 columns: File 3: line 1: go | goes | went; line 2: see | sees | saw; line 3: eat | eats | ate.

From what I remember there is a very fast way to do it in Perl..but I don't know how..What would be the script which does it?

Thank you!!!!

In reply to script to merge files by marylein

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