in reply to matching two files and print together the inputs

Although you could to it with a single pass, I would recommend breaking this into three steps:
  1. Read file 1 and store the contents in a hash
  2. Read file 2 and store the contents in a second hash
  3. Compare the hash keys and output keys that are present in both files

An algorithm for the last step is outlined in a FAQ: How do I compute the difference of two arrays? How do I compute the intersection of two arrays?. I would do something along the lines of:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; open(my $fh1, '<', "$ARGV[0]") or die "Unable to open $ARGV[0]:$!"; my %hash1; for (<$fh1>) { chomp; my ($key,$value) = split /\s+/, $_, 2; $hash1{$key} = $value; } open(my $fh2, '<', "$ARGV[1]") or die "Unable to open $ARGV[1]:$!"; my %hash2; for (<$fh2>) { chomp; my ($key,$value) = split /\s+/, $_, 2; $hash2{$key} = $value; } for my $key (keys %hash1) { next unless exists $hash2{$key}; print "$key $hash1{$key} $hash2{$key}\n"; }

Note the addition of '<' to your open statements - this is an important habit to get into for security reasons. Also note that wrapping your input file contents in <code> tags can be just as important as wrapping your code in them.