"Michael W . Cocke" wrote:
>
> This is probably a stupid question, but does anyone know how to force
> the output of print to actually PRINT, without forcing me to use a \n?
>
> It's sort of futile to print a '.' every 60 seconds to indicate the
> app hasn't crashed if the line of periods doesn't show up on the
> screen until a half hour later....
Well, if you want to use print() you are going to have to turn on
autoflush.
$| = 1; # autoflush on
for ( 1 .. 10 ) {
print '. ';
sleep 1;
}
print " done.\n";
Another way to do it is to use syswrite instead which is not buffered.
for ( 1 .. 10 ) {
syswrite STDOUT, '. ';
sleep 1;
}
print " done.\n";
John
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