>>>>> "KW" == Kenneth Wolcott <[email protected]> writes:

  KW> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 15:50, Uri Guttman <[email protected]> wrote:

  >>>>>> "KW" == Kenneth Wolcott <[email protected]> writes:

  KW>      >> select LOGNAME;
  KW>      >> $|++;
  KW>      >> select STDOUT;
   
  KW>      KW>   Which is what the Perl Cookbook suggests as well.

you said this is what the cookbook said.

  KW>            my $old_handle = select LOGNAME ;
  KW>            $|++ ;
  KW>            select $old_handle ;

  KW>   Hmmm...copy&paste from the Safari online Perl Cookbook, 2nd ed:

  KW> $old_fh = select(OUTPUT_HANDLE);
  KW> $| = 1;
  KW> select($old_fh);

then you say this is what it said. please make up your mind! :)

  KW>   Looks pretty close to your code, but not the same.

the difference in setting $| is irrelevent. that variable is special and
can only be set to 1 or 0. and i used lexicals which is a useful change.

uri

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