On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 06:23, sanket vaidya wrote:
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> This code gave some vague picture in my mind about flushing. To summarize
>
> When we write some data, the data is not written (to terminal or file)
> instantly, but is collected in buffer & is only written when the buffer is
> full. Once
>>-Original Message-
> From: Thomas Bätzler [mailto:t.baetz...@bringe.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:57 AM
> To: beginners@perl.org
> Cc: sanket vaidya
>Subject: AW: Kindly explain special variable $|
> sanket vaidya asked:
> It would be great if some
sanket vaidya asked:
> It would be great if some of you write a simple code which has two
> different outputs for $| = 0 & $| = 1 to demonstrate the difference.
Try this with different values for $|
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
$| = 1;
for ( 1..20 ){
print ".";
warn "!" unless $i % 5;
Hi,
Perldoc for $| is as below:
1. If set to nonzero, forces a flush right away and after every write or
print on the currently selected output channel. Default is 0 (regardless of
whether the channel is really buffered by the system or not; $| tells you
only whether you've asked Perl expli
