Re: Newline vs Return

Disable buffering on STDOUT by adding $| = 1; somewhere close to the top of your program.

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Re^2: Newline vs Return by DuaneCenveo (Initiate) on Oct 07, 2005 at 20:43 UTC
Thanks, BrowserUK. That works! Duane	[reply]
Re^3: Newline vs Return by revdiablo (Prior) on Oct 07, 2005 at 21:07 UTC
That works! In case you were curious about why it works: ~~filehandles are~~ STDOUT is line-buffered by default. This means that when you print, the output is buffered until (1) the buffer fills up or (2) you print a newline. Disabling buffering makes it output right away. Update: correction as per ikegami's reply	[reply]
Re^4: Newline vs Return by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 07, 2005 at 21:14 UTC
That's not quite true. Only STDOUT is line-buffered by default. In fact, only STDOUT is ever line-buffered(). I verified this with the following snippet: `perl -e "open(FH, q{>test}); print FH (qq{a\n}); sleep(5); print FH (q +q{a\n});"` [download] The lines only appeared after the 5 seconds were over. () Maybe XS or PerlIO can change this? Of course, `tie` could.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Newline vs Return by sgifford (Prior) on Oct 07, 2005 at 21:27 UTC