On 30 July 2010 19:24, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Friday, July 30, 2010 07:12:47 pm Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
>> $ cat randtype.pl
>> use Time::HiRes qw(usleep);
>>
>> $| = 1;
>>
>> open F, '/etc/passwd';
>>
>> @lines = <F>;
>>
>> for(@lines) {
>>         @chars = split //;
>>         for(@chars) {
>>                 print;
>>                 usleep(20000);
>>         }
>> }
>
> chinese posting with or without tag is a no no in this list ;-) Could we have
> an english translation so that we can find out what this thing does and 
> attempt
> to replicate it?

$| tells perl to flush STDOUT immediately.

The program prints characters read from /etc/password at random
intervals. This simulates the typing effect on a screen.

-balaji


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