RE: Re: Order of output when switching filehandles

Erk. That seems to have fixed it. Thanks.

Just out of curiosity, can any of you gurus explain why that happens?

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RE: RE: Re: Order of output when switching filehandles by isotope (Deacon) on Aug 14, 2000 at 23:04 UTC
I may be smoking something, but usually $\| = 1; doesn't completely disable buffering, just most of Perl's buffering. You still need to close it to force the OS buffer to be flushed.	[reply]
RE: RE: RE: Re: Order of output when switching filehandles by Cirollo (Friar) on Aug 14, 2000 at 23:12 UTC
As I understand it, when $\| = 0, then buffering is enabled, and I think how it works depends on whether you are outputting to a terminal. $\| = 1 doesn't completely disable buffering but turns on 'command buffering', so each time you do a 'print' or whatever, everything from that command is printed asap.	[reply]