Trent Rigsbee wrote:

> I'm sure this is easy but I'm a newbie. I was doing control statements
> (for, while,etc.) like this:
> 
> for ($count = 1; $count <= 5; $count++) {
>                                           print "$count\n";
> }
> 
> What I wanted to do was to make each number appear in sequence like you
> see in a countdown (or up, in this case) instead of all on the screen at
> once. I've tried using sleep but I'm not getting anywhere with it. Any
> ideas? Also, any methods or ideas on how to approach creating code in
> general? For example, what's the thought process for trying to do what I
> want to do? I've tried pseudo code and it's helped some but then I hit the
> wall and don't how to go further. Thanks!

like count down from 5 to 1 slowly in a single row? try:

[panda]# perl -e '$|=1; print " @{[6-$_]}\r" and sleep(1) for(1..5)'

david
-- 
$_='015001450154015401570040016701570162015401440'
,*,=*|=*_,split+local$";map{~$_&1&&{$,<<=1,$#.=qq~
/[EMAIL PROTECTED]||3])=>~}}0..s,.,,g-01;*_=*#,s
[[s/eval+w/.`9`/e]]n\\xng.print+eval(eval"qq`$_`")

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