in reply to Re^3: Tail, whiles and buffers ?
in thread Tail, whiles and buffers ?

sorry Dave...my original post said I tried using "$|++", hence the deprecated version of autoflush, so I did some more research and found that using the IO module works.

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Re^5: Tail, whiles and buffers ?
by davido (Cardinal) on Oct 19, 2006 at 18:04 UTC

    No problem. I was just perplexed as to how the design changed from what I was considering.


    Dave

Re^5: Tail, whiles and buffers ?
by blazar (Canon) on Oct 20, 2006 at 16:06 UTC
    sorry Dave...my original post said I tried using "$|++", hence the deprecated version of autoflush, so I did some more research and found that using the IO module works.

    I didn't know that the use of $| is technically deprecated. At least, perldoc perlvar doesn't mention it. Indeed it is peculiar in that it depends on the currently selected handle, and some care is needed in using it, so that IO::Handle provides a more convenient interface in many circumstances.