Re: STDERR, preserve order of

I think the main thing to take away from the two responses you've had so far is that one must always remember TIMTOWTDI. Neither one of us answered your question directly, but instead, tried to tease out the actual objective and address that instead. I have little doubt there will be a few more that offer different ideas still, including one that might actually show how to correctly intersperse STDOUT with STDERR.

That, in my opinion, is the essence of being a good software engineer: Find out what the end consumer really wants to accomplish and deliver that.

I meant to address your comment that you want to avoid using a CPAN module. I presume this is because you want to learn how to do it yourself. That is an excellent idea at this point in time for you (if I can make certain assumptions.) Once you've experienced some of the royal PITAs it is easier to fully appreciate just what CPAN really does for us. :)

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Re^2: STDERR, preserve order of by GillSans (Initiate) on Sep 10, 2013 at 14:47 UTC
I thank you both for your helpful responses. I will be analyzing both of the methods to see what I can learn from them. From running a quick trial of both, I can tell that there are many routes I could take. I've only been using Perl for two days, so it will take a bit to absorb all of what is going on. Yes, boxft, my aim is to start out away from cpan, mostly so that I can learn the ins and out of the language first, before adding all of that functionality. Start simple, build from there. Thanks	[reply]

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by GillSans (Initiate) on Sep 10, 2013 at 14:47 UTC

I thank you both for your helpful responses. I will be analyzing both of the methods to see what I can learn from them. From running a quick trial of both, I can tell that there are many routes I could take. I've only been using Perl for two days, so it will take a bit to absorb all of what is going on.

Yes, boxft, my aim is to start out away from cpan, mostly so that I can learn the ins and out of the language first, before adding all of that functionality. Start simple, build from there.

Thanks

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