Coding Together

[Jonathan Stowe]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:11 +0000, Tom Hukins wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 02:48:06PM -0000, Edwardson, Tony wrote:
> > $| = 1;
> > 
> > Sets up autoflushing whenever you output something to stderr (i.e. stops it
> > buffering output)
> 
> That's almost right:  it deals with the buffering of STDOUT not
> STDERR.  See perlvar(1) for details.

The currently selected filehandle infact :-p

But STDERR is typically not buffered so it wouldn't have much effect on
that.

/J\