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Re^3: most efficient way to scrape data and put it into a tsv fileby iburrell (Chaplain) |
| on Aug 30, 2004 at 17:05 UTC ( #386966=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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Perl buffers I/O by default. Files are block buffered, stdout is line-buffered to a terminal and block buffered when redirected, and stderr is unbuffered. This means waits until it sees the end of a line or the buffer to do an operating system write.
Are you writing your output to STDOUT or to a file? It sounded like the latter. Setting $| = 1 only unbuffers STDOUT. It is possible to unbuffer files, but this mainly used for logs where each line should be independent.
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