Re: while loop not exiting?

Is there more code after the loop?

Try adding a $|=1 to the top of your code. Just a hunch.

Otherwise the code looks ok to me.

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Re^2: while loop not exiting? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 06, 2005 at 18:21 UTC
RazorbladeBidet means the loop may in fact be ending without you realizing it because of buffering. If `select(STDOUT); $\|=1;` helps, it means the problem is actually after the loop, and that you got fooled into thinking it was within the loop because the printed data was still in a buffer.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: while loop not exiting? by mabman2 (Novice) on Apr 06, 2005 at 18:55 UTC
OK, thanks, that works. The next part of the code involves searching my newly created multidimensional array for duplicate entries but in other positions (and it's a fairly large text file to begin with), which takes a while, which is likely what I was experiencing while not seeing the next (apparently buffered) "print" statements. I have other questions about efficient searching/matching inside an array, but that's a subject for another thread and I have to go out now :) Thanks again!!	[reply]


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