Re: [MacPerl] \a \new question

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 23.02 +0000 2000.01.02, John Delacour wrote:
>This script gives an alert sound every second
>
>        #!perl -w
>        for $_ (1..8){
>          print "\a\n";
>          sleep 1;
>        }
>
>but if I omit the newline (print "\a") or add any other string not
>including a newline, the seconds and the bells are all added together
>and executed at once after 8 seconds.
>
>Why is this?

Because \n flushes the buffer.  Until the buffer is flushed, nothing will
get printed at all.  The buffer is flushed for \n, for the program exiting
or filehandle closing, or when it gets full.

$| = 1 at the top will "fix" the problem.

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