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Old 05-27-2009
ghostdog74 ghostdog74 is offline Forum Advisor  
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if you have Python

Code:
#!/usr/bin/env python
file1=open("file1").read().split("\n")
file1=[i for i in file1 if i.strip() !="" ]
file2=open("file2").read().split("\n\n")
for item in zip(file1,file2):
    print item[0],"\n",''.join(item[1]),"\n"

output

Code:
# ./test.py
Mr Smith
No 4 Jln Empat
Kuala Lumpur

Mr John
No 213 Tmn Bunga
Kedah

Ms Linda
No 1 Kampung Bukit
Malaysia