Hi, I have this problem that i want to parse each line of file 1 and 2 and then combine it side by side on a new file. say, file 3. example. if i have these lines from file 1: better beer and i have these lines from file 2: honey bees i should have a file 3 with the following output lines: better honey beer bees kindly help me. thanks.

if you have vbscript, open each file and read the lines into arrays. then use a loop to display the 2 arrays, each time printing out the contents side by side. an alternative : If you can download coreutils ( see link in my sig), you can just do a paste c:\> paste file1 file2 better honey beer bees Unix Win32 tools | Gawk for Windows

@echo off > newfile & setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion set N= for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (file1) do ( set /a N+=1 set o!N!=%%a ) set N= for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (file2) do ( set /a N+=1 set t!N!=%%a ) for /L %%a in (1 1 !N!) do ( echo !o%%a! !t%%a! >> newfile ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

wow! thanks M2. as expected from you, it works! I've read most of your codes here and thanks for replying. ghost, ill try that if i have a chance. unfortunately, all i can use is batch file/dos cmd prompt for now.thanks anyway.