From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2008-07-16T06:17:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Immediately print a string on stdout without new line?

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Janus Bor <janus@urban-youth.com> 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. If I change the first line to
>
> print "Processing...\n"
>
> everything works as expected. But that's not really what I want. Is
> there another way of doing this?
>
> Thanks, Janus
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
Janus this works for me:

def processing
print "Processing... "
sleep(3)
print "done!"
end

processing

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