From: Alex Gutteridge <alexg@...>
Date: 2007-10-29T12:06:10+09:00
Subject: Re: puts gets

On 29 Oct 2007, at 11:01, Lloyd Linklater wrote:

> I write this:
>
>
> puts "foo"
> some_var = gets
>
> I expect the foo to show up before the gets occurs but it does  
> not.  Any
> ideas?

The puts maybe buffered. Does this work as you expect:

$stdout.sync = true
puts "foo"
some_var = gets

Alex Gutteridge

Bioinformatics Center
Kyoto University