I’ve been reading about the Progress::Any module and would like to make use of it, but after reading the documentation I’m having trouble figuring out if it can do exactly what I want. So far I have something like this in the subroutine that needs to report status:

use Progress::Any;
my $progress = Progress::Any -> get_indicator( task => ‘work’ );
# Do some stuff
$progress -> update( message => “I did some stuff” );
# Do some more stuff
$progress -> update( message => “I did some more stuff”);
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Now, is it possible to get those messages and assign their content to a variable in the calling program, rather than printing them to the command line? A little more detail: My application forks, and the child process calls a long-running sub (the one that contains the code above) while the parent process monitors its status. I want the parent process to be able to retrieve the messages from the child’s sub, rather than having those messages go to STDOUT or wherever they normally go. Thanks for any advice!