First of all, use warnings and strict if your script is longer than several lines. It is really a good practice which will help you to avoid many errors.

Secondly, it is recommended to use more modern and more safe three-argument form of open, using scalar variables as filehandles: 

open my $file1,"<","1.txt" or die "1.txt: $!\n";
open my $file2,"<","2.txt" or die "2.txt: $!\n";
open my $w1,">","3.txt" or die "3.txt: $!\n";
open my $w2,">","4.txt" or die "4.txt: $!\n";

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You can even use autodie to skip writing those checks. You can also pass file names as command-line arguments.

Thirdly, you can process both files in one while loop, if you want to just check the data of the same line numbers: 

while (
  defined(my $line1=<$file1>) and defined(my $line2=<$file2>)
 ) {
 if (abs(
   (split"\t",$line1)[2]-(split"\t",$line2)[2]
  )>=2) {
  print $w1 "$line1\n";
  print $w2 "$line2\n";
 }
}

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Fourthly, remember: indenting is your friend. It helps to understand the structure if your program. Run your code through Perl::Tidy, set up your editor to indent the text for you, or install the Perl IDE.

Note: the code samples are untested and may fail for some reason.

Sorry if my advice was wrong.

In reply to Re: problem in looping by aitap
in thread problem in looping by Anonymous Monk

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