in reply to writing to logfile in a loop

You need to turn on autoflush for the filehandle. You can do that with: 
    my $oldfh = select(FH);
    $| = 1;
    select($oldfh);

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or 
    FH->autoflush(1);

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Re^2: writing to logfile in a loop
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 21, 2006 at 20:19 UTC
    The second method requires IO::Handle to be loaded (directly or otherwise).
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