At 03:39 PM 1/29/02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Friends, > >How can we can programatically control the flushing out of an output buffer >so that during an iterative process, the contents can be periodically >flushed out to the output buffer? > >Say, in this test snippet code, what should I do in order to flush the >contents for every 10th record? >- Rex > >########################## >#!/usr/bin/perl >use strict; >my($testFile) = ">test.txt"; >open(OUT, $testFile); > >for (0..100) { > print OUT $_,"\n"; > #if(not $_ % 10 ){ > # print "flush\n"; > #} >} >close(OUT); > >##########################
If you use IO::Handle; then you can just say flush OUT; whenever you like. -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]