in reply to Re: PERL Countdown Timer
in thread PERL Countdown Timer

A minor nit-pick, you need a
$|++;
in your code, or the timer will not update the display properly.

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Re^3: PERL Countdown Timer
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 16, 2004 at 18:33 UTC
    oops, right, you need that on non-Windows systems. I tested my code in Windows, which line-flushes on \r and \n (as opposed to just on \n).