Re: Odd behaviour from print statement

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It really does sound like you're output is buffered. Did you select the filehandle before changing $|? If not, you're setting autoflushing for the currently selected handle (presumably STDOUT).

open(FILE, ...

{
   my $old_selected = select(*FILE);
   $| = 1;
   select($old_selected);
}

print FILE ...
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Re^2: Odd behaviour from print statement by periapt (Hermit) on Jan 19, 2005 at 13:53 UTC
Good idea :o) I was setting AUTOFLUSH on STDOUT vice the file handle. However, after setting it on the file, no luck. I was optimistic for a few minutes though. PJ use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics;	[reply]

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