in reply to Combining Lines from Two Docs into Another

I hate to give a non-Perl answer to a question here, but if you are on Unix, you can do:

paste file1 file2

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Re^2: Combining Lines from Two Docs into Another
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 21, 2004 at 01:02 UTC

    See also man join if you need to get fancy in how you combine.