Take a good look at the last statement: 
print "test " . incStart( $Qstart, $Qcount, $Qint ) . "\n";

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The string to be printed is created by concatenating two string literals with the output of incStart() - that means incStart() needs to run first before the final string to be printed is known. Note that incStart doesn't return anything, it just prints stuff directly. This is seriously ugly :-)

I suggest you either return the string from incStart instead of printing directly, or you "print 'test '" first and THEN call incStart().

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In reply to Re: Buffering and output help needed by Joost
in thread Buffering and output help needed by richill

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