in reply to Delayed writes

You don't show code...but a suggestion, setting $| only works on the currently selected file handle, so make sure you are doing something like:
select( FILEHANDLEFORMYFILE )
$| = 1;
select( STDOUT ); # I always like to set things back to how they were 
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Re: Re: Delayed writes
by fruiture (Curate) on Oct 28, 2002 at 18:23 UTC
    I always like to set things back to how they were

    Then the following should be much better, because it really resets the selected handle, no matter which was selected.

    my $oh = select( WHATEVER );
$| = 1;
select($oh);

# or even (might be regarded as obfu) :

select( ( select( WHATEVER ), $| = 1 )[0] );

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Re: Re: Delayed writes
by SpaceAce (Beadle) on Oct 28, 2002 at 18:50 UTC
    Ooooooh, that might be the glaringly obvious thing I am missing :)

    (Note: yep, it was)
    It's just like that feeling you get when you leave the house and you just KNOW you forgot something...

    Just for the record, I didn't post any code because the workhorse function where this is going on is a couple of hundred lines long and I was hoping to get a general suggestion like yours.

    Thanks for the help.

    SpaceAce

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