Adding row from other file

ashnator has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks, I was trying to add a row of my data to another file but alas !! couldn't do it. I have 2 files and I need to copy one row of a file to make it the first row of the other file :-

File 1:-
New_York  South_Street  334473
Los_Ange  West_Street   829839
Californ  North_Street  748723


File 2:- 
David
John 
Mathew
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I want the result like this

RESULT file:-
David  New_York  South_Street  334473
John   Los_Ange  West_Street   829839
Mathew Californ  North_Street  748723
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I tried but not able to do :(. Is there any PERL One liner for this ??
Thanks

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Re: Adding row from other file by dHarry (Abbot) on Nov 06, 2008 at 11:24 UTC
Why don't you show some code/effort? Also you mix row and column. It appears you want to insert the column of file 2 before the columns of file 1. If you first write down the steps to take you're almost there. Like for example: open the two files for reading, open a new file for writing In a loop: read line from file 1 read line from file 2 combine lines write combined line to file 3 close the files And why do you want a one-liner for this? And it's Perl and not PERL (yes I am grumpy today)	[reply]
Re^2: Adding row from other file by ashnator (Sexton) on Nov 06, 2008 at 15:18 UTC
Dear Harry I am sorry I made u angry. I am still learning and will be better next time.	[reply]
Re^3: Adding row from other file by gone2015 (Deacon) on Nov 06, 2008 at 17:18 UTC
Learning is good. Everyone was a learner once and hopefully can remember what it was like. The way the question was posed, however, appeared to be asking for the code to be written for you.	[reply]
Re: Adding row from other file by gone2015 (Deacon) on Nov 06, 2008 at 11:20 UTC
The required result appears to be a new column rather than a new row. So that's a worry. What have you tried that doesn't quite work for you ? Reading two files, line by line, and concatenating each line seems to be roughly what you want ?	[reply]
Re: Adding row from other file by repellent (Priest) on Nov 07, 2008 at 01:38 UTC
If in Unix, no need for Perl: `$ cat file1.txt New_York South_Street 334473 Los_Ange West_Street 829839 Californ North_Street 748723 $ $ cat file2.txt David John Mathew $ $ paste file2.txt file1.txt # separate with "\t" David New_York South_Street 334473 John Los_Ange West_Street 829839 Mathew Californ North_Street 748723 $ $ man paste # please read` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
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