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Perl - my idiosyncracies

$|=1; - turning off output buffering

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By default, Perl will buffer its output. Being the immediate gratification sort, I hardly ever want that to happen. So I generally start all my scripts with

	$| = 1;

I don't know when output buffering is actaully desirable. I just blindly do this on all my code nowadays.

© 2001 Steve Hwan, hostname: @pacbell.net, username: svhwan
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Last Modified: Sat Mar 24 01:59:12 2001