[sf-perl] Flushing a file.

[Garth Webb]

On 8/14/07, nheller at silcon.com <nheller at silcon.com> wrote:
>
> I've come to a point where I wish to flush the contents of a file buffer
> before closing the file.


Closing the filehandle will flush it automatically.  For other times, if you
use IO::Handle you can call ->flush on an object to do the flush manually if
you'd like.

Garth

I looked through the Perl man pages and am unable to find this.  I thought
> that since Perl is a wrapper for C, there would be a corrolary to
> fflush(), but there doesn't seem to be.
>
> How is this situation to be handled?
>
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