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Hi Mano_Man
I assume it is mostly a design decision:
- do you need the info in $toPrint later?
- is it a benefit to use the say/print at only one place?
- do you want to give error-messages as soon as possible?
However I have experienced an issue in the past with redirecting the output to a file, using the > in a windows batch file: IIRC it didn't work when printing a text that was too long - it seemed that the data was sent out by print was much faster than the writing to the file. Unfortunately, I can't find the old script where this happened... but it might a thing you want to check/consider.
HTH, Rata
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