On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Jason Frisvold wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to have perl output in an asynchronous
> manner. What I mean is, if I write a perl script to generate a large
> amount of data and output it to the screen, it seems to pause until some
> unknown buffer is full and then spit out the output.. pause again, show
> output, etc. It does the same thing with files. I can watch the
> filesize for the output and it seems to only jump in size every so
> often.
>
> My main goal here is so that the data is streamed so that a web
> browser can begin displaying the data without a long pause.
>
> Is there a way to do this, or should I switch to C++?
Set $| to a positive value ($|++ will do). This turns on the autoflush
mechanism for the currecntly selected filehandle.
There's a FAQ on this:
perldoc -q flush
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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