in reply to I/O buffering problem

When you use <STDIN>, perl waits for the new line before returning the result. You need to use read or sysread to get data as soon as it is available.

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Re^2: I/O buffering problem
by pwr (Novice) on Feb 15, 2008 at 20:26 UTC
    Ah, that perfectly solves my problem, thank you!
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