#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $str = "Hello!";
chomp($str);
foreach (split //  ,$str) {
print $_,"\n";
sleep 1;
}

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gives this output with sleep one second for every character!:


H
e
l
l
o
!

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What I would like is about the same code, but with this output instead:

H e l l o !

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This includes sleep one second between every character as in first code example above. This works fine, but the thing is; is it possible to get the output one character for every second and all on the same line? I have tried with /t instead of newline but that just gives me 
 H e l l o

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in a bunch when code exits. So to be absolutely clear. I want output like this all on the same line: 

h (sleep) e (sleep) l (sleep) l (sleep) o (sleep)  !(sleep)

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In reply to split sleep question by learn_perl_se

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