Hello Monks, maybe someone can explain this behaviour to me: I've already "played" a bit with the flock system in Perl, and noticed, if I print an array directly everything works fine, if I print only some values it doesn't work (Lines get corrupted / wrongly printed): 

flock($fh, LOCK_EX) or die "cannnot lock file - $!\n";
            print $fh @out;
            #print $fh $out[0]; #Date
            #print $fh $out[1]; #Site
            #print $fh $out[2]; #CTR
            #print $fh $out[3]; #IP 
            #print $fh $out[4]; #Temperature
flock($fh, LOCK_UN) or die "cannnot unlock file - $!\n";

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why does it behave like this? Or is flock only for the next print argument?

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Question about flock and printing to file by deruytja

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