Dear Perl Monks,

Strawberry Perl 5.24.0.1 for Windows.

What am I doing wrong here, besides writing it in C like structure instead of Perl 5. 

sub Sleep ( $ ) {
  my $Seconds = $_[0];  # Stone age sub's
  my  $I = 1;

  print "Sleeping for $Seconds seconds ... ";
  until( $I > $Seconds ){
    print "$I ";
    sleep ( 1 ); # sleep for X seconds
    $I += 1;
  }   
  print "done\n";
}

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It does wait the desired time, but I don't get to see it walk through the time.  This comes out all at once, "after" the desired delay. 

Sleep ( 8 );

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Sleeping for 8 seconds ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 done 

Many thansk,
-T

In reply to Need sleep walking help by Todd Chester

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