From: fedzor <fedzor@...>
Date: 2008-07-16T06:17:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Immediately print a string on stdout without new line?


On Jul 15, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Janus Bor wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm trying to do something like this:
>
> print "Processing... "
>
> #some fancy code that takes ages, or maybe:
> sleep(3)
>
> print "done\n"
>
>
> I was expecting to get the following output on my console:
>
> Processing... [and after 3 secs:]done
>
> However, the script first waits 3 seconds and then writes the whole  
> line
> at once.

Try this:

print "Processing... "
STDOUT.flush

sleep 3

puts "done"

STDOUT#flush will ensure that everything in the buffer will be  
printed, there and then


~ Ari
English is like a pseudo-random number generator - there are a  
bajillion rules to it, but nobody cares.