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minus-square@ulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 month agoSimple. \n when you just want a newline. println when you need to flush at the moment. Useful in case you are printing a debug output right before some function that might do bed stuff to buffers.
minus-square@embed_me@programming.devlinkfedilink0•1 month agoI only program in C. I was under the assumption that \n also flushes
minus-square@ulterno@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 month agoI remember having to fflush a couple of times.
minus-squarepelyalinkfedilink0•edit-21 month agoIt depends on whether you are printing to a terminal or to a file (and yes the terminal is also a file), and even then you can control the flushing behaviour using something like unbuffer
Simple.
\nwhen you just want a newline.printlnwhen you need to flush at the moment.Useful in case you are printing a debug output right before some function that might do bed stuff to buffers.
I only program in C. I was under the assumption that \n also flushes
I remember having to
fflusha couple of times.It depends on whether you are printing to a terminal or to a file (and yes the terminal is also a file), and even then you can control the flushing behaviour using something like
unbuffer