OK, all yoos monks gave me some great insight on my quest for wisdom. Here's one that should be much easier.

When I look into using $| to flush STDOUT, I find stuff like this: 

$old_handle = select (STDOUT);
$| = 1;   # perform flush after each write to STDOUT
select ($old_handle); # restore previously selected handle

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Why do I have to do all that selecting of file handles? If STDOUT is already selected by default, and I'm not changing to another handle, can't I just use: 


     $| = 1;

     print "some stuff\n";
     print "some more stuff\n";

     $| = 0;

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What I'd really rather do is just flush STDOUT at will. But if theres a flush(STDOUT) function, I haven't seen it documented.

I now humbly await your monkitudinous wisdom.

In reply to Lowering my STDards :) by headybrew

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