Re: delayed print statement?

[epoptai]

Turn off buffering by adding this before you print anything:

$| = 1;

or 

$|++;

Read all about it in Suffering from Buffering?

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[bwana147]

And, as has been pointed out many a time, $| affects the currently selected file handle. The turn off buffering on something else, you have to temporarily select, e.g., like so:

select((select(SOMETHING_ELSE), $| = 1)[0]);

--bwana147

[the_0ne]

You're right epoptai, I just read Suffering from Buffering? this weekend because I was having the same sort of problem and it helped a great deal to understand the pros/cons of buffering and how to get around it, if needed.