compounding two text files

[Anon]

I have two text files that have tab delimited fields. Is there any way I can bring the lines in each of the text fields together and create a single text file.

Ex.

Read line1 from file1.txt and read line1 from file2.txt, put the two lines together as line1 in a newfile.txt as tab delimited.

Has anyone seen any script that does this?

Thanks in advance!

[kidestranged]

Well this can be easliy done in the Linux shell. I don't know how to interlace the two but it you want to add the second one to the first, do this:

cat file2.txt >> file1.txt

[Anon]

Sounds like a fairly straight-forward script.

Just as you said.
fopen both files, fopen a newfile.

$fp1line = fgets($fp1,256);
$fp2line = fgets($fp2,256);

while(!eof($fp1) && !eof($fp2) ) {
$newline = $fp1line . "/t".$fp2line ."/n";
fputs($fpnew,$newline);
}

or something along those lines...

good luck
andre @ performance technologies