Scarborough has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

With this simple program
    print "foo ";

    sleep 10;

    print "bar ";

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How do I make the 'foo' appear 10 seconds before the 'bar ' on the screen. At the moment it all appears when the program finishes. I have looked in the archives and found answers relating to CGI but I guess these are different circumstances.
Thanks for your help kind Monks.
Update on the command line it works in my editor it fails sorry folks!!!

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Re: Flushing output to STDOUT
by EdwardG (Vicar) on May 25, 2004 at 08:32 UTC
    See the documentation for $| in perlvar

     

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