From: caof2005 <caof2005@...>
Date: 2007-04-11T18:25:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbe - strange behavior of print

On Apr 11, 3:36 am, Bj�rn Paetzel <n...@kolrabi.de> wrote:
> caof2005 schrieb:
>
> Flush your buffers:
>
> > def main
> >    print "Enter the number of employees: "
>
>         $stdout.flush # <- here
>
> >    numEmp = gets
> >    puts "The number of employees is:= " + numEmp.to_s
> > end
>
> That should help. :)

Bjorn:

Thanks it worked great!
However is it possible you can explain me in general terms why this
behavior happens?
I mean, besides trying in EasyEclipse and SciTE I tried the same code
in irb, and surprisingly it works perfectly (no need to flush)!

Regards