note Riales <p>Why the sleep after each print? Are you perhaps [http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Buffering.html|suffering from buffering]?</p> <p>If not, my initial thought when I think about printing a string letter by letter would be:</p> <code> $| = 1; print $_ foreach (split '', $string); </code> <p><b>Edit:</b> I took a second look at the code you provided. I'm really not sure I understand what you're trying to do now. The second bit of the for loop is supposed to be a test that tells the loop when to stop, but since you're just assigning to <code>$i</code>, I'm pretty sure that loop will run forever.</p> 966227 966227