There is a script that I am trying to troubleshoot that sometimes waits to write a line previously printed to the filehandle until the filehandle is closed.

At the end of the script it does this: 

print FILE (scalar localtime)." ## Exit\n";
close FILE;

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which results in a line previously previously printed to be written to the file after the Exit line. However, if I do this: 
print FILE (scalar localtime)." ## Exit\n";
exit();
close FILE;

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everything is fine. It's probably not a good idea to exit before the close, so I'm looking for another way to get the same results.

many thanks great holders of wisdom.

In reply to output caught in memory by melguin

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