Re: Strange piece of code!

Others already explained what it does, now for a more readable alternative.

If you do not have time to change the FILEHANDLE to a lexical filehandle (or do not dare to make big changes) you can do this:

use IO::Handle;
ERRFP->autoflush();
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Jenda
Enoch was right!
Enjoy the last years of Rome.

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Re^2: Strange piece of code! by Anonymous Monk on Jul 26, 2012 at 20:13 UTC
Well `HANDLE->autoflush(1);`	[reply]
Re^3: Strange piece of code! by Jenda (Abbot) on Jul 26, 2012 at 23:29 UTC
Nope. The parameter is optional and the default is true: ... If no argument is given the previous value is unchanged (except for $io->autoflush will actually turn ON autoflush by default). - from perldoc IO::Handle Jenda Enoch was right! Enjoy the last years of Rome.	[reply]