From: Glen Holcomb <damnbigman@...>
Date: 2008-07-16T06:31:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Immediately print a string on stdout without new line?

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Janus Bor <janus@urban-youth.com> wrote:

> 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).
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
Until reading fedzor's post I had completely forgotten that different
Operating systems behave differently.  I'm on a Windows machine here at
work.  Glad you got it fixed though.

-- 
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so loud, I can't hear a word you're saying."

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