Charles Lu wrote:
>
> If I wanted to print say 10 numbers but instead of
> printing each number on a line, I want each successive
> number to REPLACE the previous number so it appears
> that the number is changing in place.
I assume you've turned off buffering with $| = 1;
> foreach(1..10){
> print "$_";
printf "%2u"; # force print to 2 char width or %02u for leading zeros
> sleep(1); #delay so i can see the change
> print "\r";
> }
>
> This code works only for increasing numbers, but when
> I try to go from 2-digit to 1 digit i.e. (11,10,9)the
> final output would be "90". It appears that only the
> first digit is replaced with 9. Anyone have any
> suggestions? This would be useful in printing out
> progress of your program.
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