Hi Anonymous Monk,

I am not sure if this fits into what you're trying to do, but why not simplify the matter by building the output where and when you need it: 

$ perl -e '#!/usr/bin/perl
> use warnings;
> use strict;
>
> my $count = 42;
> my $completed = 6;
>
> notify_progress();
> $completed = 7;
> notify_progress();
>
> sub notify_progress {
>     my $progress_output = ["\rProcessing: ", $count, " files to proc
+ess ; ", $completed, " files completed\n"];
>     print @$progress_output;
> }'
Processing: 42 files to process ; 6 files completed
Processing: 42 files to process ; 7 files completed

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Or even simplify further the notify_progress subroutine: 
$ perl -e '#!/usr/bin/perl
> use warnings;
> use strict;
>
> my $count = 42;
> my $completed = 6;
>
> notify_progress();
> $completed = 7;
> notify_progress();
>
> sub notify_progress {
>     print "Processing: ",  $count, " files to process ; ", $complete
+d, " files completed\n";
> }'
Processing: 42 files to process ; 6 files completed
Processing: 42 files to process ; 7 files completed

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And, BTW, do yourself and other monks a favor, take the time to register an account. ;-)

In reply to Re: Printing to stdout an array of strings and scalar references by Laurent_R
in thread Printing to stdout an array of strings and scalar references by Anonymous Monk

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