On 2/28/07, Bill Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# Out of curiousity -- why does line 2 get printed first?
open(o,"|cat");print o "I think I am 1st? ^L^M"; $_ = "LINE 2: Jvtu bopuifs Pfsm ibdlfs ..."; y/a-z/za-y/; print
Buffering: cat can't give all of its output until you finish writing to it by closing filehandle o. Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/