reading from stdin via pipe, buffering?

R

Rudy Gevaert

Hi,

I have written an perl program that read from stdin:
while(<STDIN>)
{
chomp
do_it($_);
}
Data is fed to it via a pipe:

cat myfile | ./myprogram

When running the program, the program doesn't always read the whole
line. I'm guessing this has something to do with the stdin buffer.

I would like to know how I can make that perl gets the whole line. As
it is clearly failing from time to time.

Thanks in advance,

Rudy
 
R

Rodrick Brown

Rudy Gevaert said:
Hi,

I have written an perl program that read from stdin:
while(<STDIN>)
{
chomp
do_it($_);
}
Data is fed to it via a pipe:

cat myfile | ./myprogram

When running the program, the program doesn't always read the whole line.
I'm guessing this has something to do with the stdin buffer.

I would like to know how I can make that perl gets the whole line. As it
is clearly failing from time to time.

Thanks in advance,

Rudy

Try disabling buffering $|++;
 

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