Title: RE: print \r

Seems like it is the Carriage Return character "\r"
if the printer however, doesn't do an automatic carriage return
  then a line feed, you may need to change it to \r\n
  for \r carriage return, \n line feed (new line)

George

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Conrad, Ben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:28 AM
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>Subject: print \r
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>
>Hi,
>
>I'm using a bit of code I found from the 'net that uses
>something I have not seen "print" use:
>
>print STDERR "$Trimcnt files moved:  ".&whirley."\r";
>
>I can't find any info on the /r switch for print, I'm assuming
>that it means "repeat/refresh" but I would like to know how it works.
>
>I've looked at perldoc -f print and the .html help pages for
>print() with no luck.
>
>Anyone know where I can get some info on this?
>
>Ben
>
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