Re: [MacPerl] print chars to STDOUT without \n?

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 12.07 97/2/18, alex dosher wrote:
>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?

#!perl
$|=1; #flush print
$x = "This text is cooooooool.";
@x = split (//,$x);
foreach (@x) {print;sleep(1);}


NOTE: this is a general Perl question, not exclusive to MacPerl by any means.

Hope this helps,

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