troll314 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

print "process.... ";
....do something;
print "ok. done\n";

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it prints it all at once. ie buffered. how can I make stagger it?

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Re: dont want to prints whole line at one time
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Aug 27, 2001 at 01:34 UTC

    Set autoflush with $| = 1;

    After Compline,
    Zaxo

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      brilliant, thanks. works good.
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