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Brain Hurts .. Forcing PERL to write to a logfil

Posted by CornishDeity (CornishDeity), 2 November 2006
Hi Graham,

Don't know if you remember me, its Ollie who sat a course perhaps 4 months ago. from www.jollyfollies.com

Anyhow, hope your good.

Got a problem, I am writing a continuous loop, which is a monitoring script. Perl writes to a logfile which we need to tail 'live' so to speak. Now I am finding that PERL isn't writing to the logfile immediately, and only when I include a exit in the program.

I'm sure you mentioned that you could get PERL to print to a file in real time with some trick. I can't for the life of me remember.

I'm desperate, please save me!

Thanks

Posted by admin (Graham Ellis), 3 November 2006
You're looking for "Autoflush" mode ... the $| special variable.

open (FH,">>logfile");
select FH;
$|=1;
select STDOUT;

Then any prints to FH will be flushed rather than buffered.

Posted by CornishDeity (CornishDeity), 3 November 2006
Great thanks Graham. Not only is your course top notch but your there when I need you!!

Hope all is going well in the new venue. I look forward to finding a reason to visitin the new year.

Cheers

Ollie



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