I've been loving Perl and coding away. I've got a fairly cool monitoring program now running on my PC with the ActiveState. 5.10 Windows XP.

But after chasing some loop problems I find the issue is that the print buffers aren't clearing. For example a "print" command to notify me that I've entered a 60 second sleep coded just before sleep later appears on the windows command prompt screen after sleep is exited. hmmmm My first fight with Perl. And I was begin to love you as much as PHP :-).

So it's off searching for a good clean way to clear the buffers. Doesn't seem to be a universal way to do it. And why do I have to do it any way?

printsometime "better late than never";

I tried

# print buffers to insure messages go to screen quickly
my $old_fh = select(OUTPUT_HANDLE);
$| = 1;
select($old_fh);

Two things, 1) Don't really understand that code and 2) what the heck it didn't work away way

Also saw the flush(3) code mentioned here by a monk.

advice, pointer, suggestion
p.s. I still love Perl.

In reply to Flushing the print buffers. by kansaschuck

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