As others have mentioned, the "easiest" fix is to turn off buffering (in other words, turn on auto-flush) by giving the special variable $| a value:  $| = 1;

But stop and consider for a moment that buffering is on by default for a reason. Turning it off will affect file IO speeds, which generally improve with buffering.

One thing you can do is to localize the damage done by turning on autoflush. That can be done lexically as follows: 

print "Beginning test.\n";

print "This is not autoflushed...";
sleep 3;
{
    local $| = 1;
    print "This is autoflushed...";
    sleep 3;
}
print "This is not autoflushed...";
sleep 3;

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Dave

In reply to Re: Won't print unless newline is included? by davido
in thread Won't print unless newline is included? by Anonymous Monk

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