in reply to How do you create a tab delimited txt file from two files?

One of the rare cases where you don't want to enable warnings:
use strict; use autodie; open my $one, "<", "data1"; open my $two, "<", "data2"; { my $line1 = <$one>; my $line2 = <$two>; last unless $line1 or $line2; chomp $line1; chomp $line2; print "$line1\t$line2\n"; redo; }