Hi, I'm new to Perl, I'd like to create a script that reads two input files and writes their contents to one output file in a way that the first line of input 1 is followed by the first line of input 2 and so forth. If one input file is shorter than the other, it should return to the first line, which is the difficulty to me. check my code out: 

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $input1=<>;
my $input2=<>;
my $output = "output.txt";
#
open (READ1, $input1) || die "Cannot open $input1: $!.\n";
chomp ($input1);
open (READ2, $input2) || die "Cannot open $input2: $!.\n";
chomp ($input2);
open (WRITE, ">$output") || die "Cannot open $output: $!.\n";

while (my $line= <READ1>.<READ2>){
    chomp ($line);
    print WRITE "$line\n";
    
}
close (WRITE); 
close (READ2);
close (READ1);
print "done\n";

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In reply to writing two files (different in length) to one output by ic23oluk

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