Re: Progress Bar

If you are looking for a really simple solution (like something that would run from a command line) then you can use a bar graph terminated with a "\r" ready for the next bar graph to overwrite it. So you'd get something like

[---+---|---+---|---+---|---+---]  0%
[XXX+---|---+---|---+---|---+---] 10%
[XXXXXXXXXXXX---|---+---|---+---] 37%
[XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX---+---|---+---] 50%
[XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-] 97%
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I'm sure printf ( "%2d" .. ) and the x operator would come in handy to implement that. For something a little classier, Ovid's suggestion of curses will work great.

--t. alex

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Re: Re: Progress Bar by jrm (Novice) on Jan 09, 2002 at 08:15 UTC
Many thanks Ovid and talexb for 2 helpful replies. After some thought I have gone for the Curses option, (a good excuse to learn Curses ?). A quick attempt at the %age worked well, and once I spotted the endwin() function I was happy. There does, however, seem to be a lack of perl-specific-Curses documentation... Thanks again jrm	[reply]