On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:18:33AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote:
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>
> I think that my question was not very clear.
>
> timerest3.pl in fact is a subroutine in a little script Perl that I wrote
> myself ( I am not a student who expect that others do his work :-))
> In that subroutine I wrote
> ......
> while ($i < 6) {
> print "\e[0;46;31m", 5-$i, "\e[0m";
> `sleep 1`; # the sleep of the shell
> print "\r";
> .......
> If i use the sleep of Perl there nothing is displayed at though with the
> sleep
> of the shell the numbers 5 4 3 2 1 0 are displayed as I want.
> And, I don't understand why the sleep of Perl doesn't work ?
> I think it is not coherent to use the sleep of the shell whereas Perl has
> such
The sleep function is working as you expect, it is the output that is
buffered. Look at the perl info for the $| variable. (Hint: set $| to
a non-zero value for unbuffered output.)
(Not a perl guru, but I think this is what you want.)
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