Hi, I'm a C programmer teaching myself Perl. I'm working on Windows XP using ActivePerl and Eclipse (EPIC).
I've got a question about $| = 1; If I run the following program: #!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "What is your name? "; my $name = <STDIN>; chomp $name; print "Hello, $name!\n"; the command line does nothing until I enter some text, at which point the program runs and outputs the following: Test What is your name? Hello, Test! What I don't get is why the print statement doesn't execute? If I add $| = 1; at the top of the program this fixes the problem and the program runs as expected. Could someone explain what's going on here, or point me to an explanation. Cheers, Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
