in reply to Opening multiple files

You could do something like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; my @fh; # open all files for my $i (0..$#ARGV) { open $fh[$i], "<", $ARGV[$i] or die $!; } while (1) { my @lines; # read one line from each file push @lines, scalar readline $fh[$_] for 0..$#ARGV; last unless defined $lines[0]; chomp @lines; print join(",", @lines), "\n"; }
$ ./950649.pl infile1 infile2 infile3 ... > outfile

(Note that you have to use readline with "complex" file handle expressions like $fh[$i], as <$fh[$i]> wouldn't work here.)

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Re^2: Opening multiple files
by kielstirling (Scribe) on Jan 30, 2012 at 01:45 UTC
    Hi,

    Maybe I'm still asleep but, will this ever return out of the while loop?

    -Kiel R Stirling
      will this ever return out of the while loop?

      Yes, due to the

      last unless defined $lines[0];

      where $lines[0] becomes undef when EOF of the first file has been reached.

        arr yes that will do it .. so i am still asleep :)