Hello,
I've developed a perl script that runs over tons of X and does Y.
Anyhow, while in a loop, I try to print a progress, it works as long as I use "\n" in the print, but when I remove the "\n" it will only print the line at the end of it.

Expected result would be that it would print:
Progress: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ..(these numbers will come up while the loop runs)
and instead I get:
Progress: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 - 100 In 1 print (and after a long time).
When using print "$x\n" (where $x is the progress %) it works perfectly, but ugly.

Any ideas?
Thanks!!



Actual code:

  print " progress: \n";
  foreach my $query (@queries) {
  $count2++;
  my $xx = ($count2/$count)*100;
  $xx = sprintf "%.0f", $xx;  

    if ($xx % 10 == 0) {
     if ($xx != $laststatus) {
         print " * $xx\n"; # removing the \n here will stop printing:(
           $laststatus=$xx;
       }
    }
  }

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In reply to Print does not work in loop unless used with \n by Mistdemon

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