Delay function?

Brendan brenzie at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 13:24:02 PDT 2008


Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Chris R. Miller <
> lordSaurontheGreat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Brendan wrote:
> > > Jarrett Billingsley Wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> </blockquote></div><br>If you're expecting it to pause after each
> > character.. you're missing braces around the body of the for loop, this
> > isn't Python ;)<br></div>
> > >>
> > >
> > > Oooooh, what a foolish mistake! How could I forget that? Thanks for
> > pointing it out.
> > >
> > > But the result isn't fruitful, though. When I run it, all I get is an
> > empty screen, then after many seconds the whole string is displayed at once
> > (not to mention I set the sleep time to 0.1 seconds). I'm probably missing
> > something. Any idea?
> >
> > Flush the output?
> >
> >
> Totally.
> 
> foreach(ch; s) { write(ch); fflush(stdout); system("pause 0.2"); }

Thanks! With a little quick tweaking it worked. But, even though I see the effective result, I don't entirely understand what it means "to flush" the output. I've never heard of this concept before and Google doesn't seem to return any useful answers. Could you explain?


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