Re^3: Stumped UPDATED!?!?!

by chromatic (Archbishop)

on Feb 11, 2008 at 06:44 UTC ( [id://667335]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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$| = 1; # auto flush stdout

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Re^4: Stumped UPDATED!?!?! by ysth (Canon) on Feb 11, 2008 at 08:59 UTC
Because that's how you ensure the " : " prompt will be written out before the readline. -- Online Fortune Cookie Search	[reply]
Re^5: Stumped UPDATED!?!?! by chromatic (Archbishop) on Feb 11, 2008 at 18:28 UTC
I completely missed that. You're right.	[reply]
Re^4: Stumped UPDATED!?!?! by Thelonius (Priest) on Feb 11, 2008 at 08:34 UTC
When I ran this without that, I didn't see the prompt or any of the output. I was running ActivePerl 5.8.8 in an rxvt window. If I run cygwin perl, I don't need the $\|=1, or if I run either perl in a DOS box, I don't need it. Dunno why.	[reply]

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