--- Bruce Van Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For your use, what you especially want to get from > this example is the use of the Perl character "\b", > which outside of regular expressions means " > backspace". The point is to print "\b" the same > number of times as the number of characters you > want to back up before printing the updated output.
Just an FYI if using this process (print "\b"x$length), it's frequently good to put a sleep(1) in there. Otherwise I've found that some glitchiness can occour (with things not being completely deleted before printing starts and vice-versa). I haven't tested the specific code given which may be better than a similar thing I have used, and sleep() may not suit your purposes, but just figured I'd give a heads up. live well, ~wren __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com