From: Janus Bor <janus@...>
Date: 2008-07-16T06:26:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Immediately print a string on stdout without new line?

fedzor wrote:
> 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
> 

Thank you! That does the trick...


Glen Holcomb wrote:
> Janus this works for me:
> 
> def processing
> print "Processing... "
> sleep(3)
> print "done!"
> end
> 
> processing
> 

Strange, on my machine (Ruby 1.86 on Linux) "Processing... " and "done!" 
appear at the same time (after the 3 seconds).
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