At 9:07 AM 2/18/97, alex dosher wrote: > hi, > > i want to print one char at a time to STDOUT, but print doesn't flush the > buffer until it hits a \n. i seem to vaguely remember that this is > possible, but i can't figure it out; printf "%c" doesn't work (at all - i > get a "Argument isn't numeric in prtf" error) - any ideas? > > thanks, > > alex. I don't know what you want to do. It will slove that to put one char at one time. $yourText = 'your text'; @yourText = $yourText; select (STDOUT); $| = 1; for($i=0;$i<= length($yourText);$i++) { print $yourText[$i]; } It's not beauty but works.