[tpm] chomp problem

[Omid Gulban]

Hello All,

I have used chomp a countless number of times before and had no problem. I am also well aware of the end of line characters on various platforms. What confuses me the most as well is
when I included a "sleep 1; " in the code as listed below:

use warnings;
use strict;

while (<DATA>) {
        chomp $_;
        print "$_";
        sleep 1;

}

__END__
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h


I expected a 1 second delay in between the print statements. BUT PERL waits 8 (1 second for a,b,c,d...h)  seconds and prints everything together!
maybe I should uninstall perl and reinstall it again!

I have used chomp for about 8 years and never seen this.




Thanks
O
________________________________________
From: toronto-pm-bounces+gulban=sickkids.ca at pm.org [toronto-pm-bounces+gulban=sickkids.ca at pm.org] On Behalf Of Omid Gulban [omgulban at yahoo.ca]
Sent: February 4, 2011 3:42 PM
To: tpm at to.pm.org
Subject: [tpm] chomp problem

Hello All,

I have a simple script shown below:
on windows xp platform.



use warnings;
use strict;

while (<DATA>) {
        chomp $_;
        print "$_";
}

__END__
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h


Why do I get an output that looks like this:
a
ab
bc
cd
de
ef
fg
ghh

I expected to see:
abcdefg


Thanks
O


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