Is there anyway that I can get around this with like a delay or something?

Can't tell without seeing a snippet of the code, sorry

How do I get NAMES to go to the browser/STDOUT?

Fast solution: use STDOUT instead of NAMES.

A little more elaborated solution: you could use IO::File, creating filehandle-like objects, like this:

use strict ; # please, do
use IO::File ;

my ($name1,$name2) ;

my $fh = IO::File->new() ;
$fh->fdopen(fileno(STDOUT),'w') or die "Cannot open STDOUT: $!" ;

$fh->format_name('NAMES') ;

# Write to STDOUT using $fh, like this
foreach my $data ([qw(mama papa)],[qw(tick tock)],[qw(cip ciop)]) {
  ($name1,$name2) = @$data ;
  $fh->format_write() ;
}

# your format definition goes here
format NAMES =
@<<<<<<<< @<<<<<<<<<
$name1    $name2
.
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For more information see IO::File documentation, which will lead you almost immediately to IO::Handle docs.

Note that you could do this also with plain Perl, too. Anyway, I prefer the object-oriented approach, since it doesn't depend on things such select calls and $~ variables. Instead, $object->format_name('MYFORMAT') call binds MYFORMAT to the specified object, which I find so desirable :-)

Ciao!
--bronto

# Another Perl edition of a song:
# The End, by The Beatles
END {
  $you->take($love) eq $you->made($love) ;
}

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