It works for me and gives the output shown below. (I modified your code slightly so the loop would terminate and to avoid using switch.)

use strict;
use warnings;

my $intervals = 20;
my $interval = 1;   # Sleep time between twirls
my $tcount = 0;     # For each tcount the line twirls one increment

while ($intervals-- > 0) {
    $tcount++;
    print "$tcount\n";
    if ($tcount == 1) {
            printf '-';
            sleep $interval;
        }
    elsif ($tcount == 2) {
            print "\\";
            sleep $interval;
        }
    elsif ($tcount == 3) {
            print "|";
            sleep $interval;
        }
    elsif ($tcount == 4) {
            print "/";
            sleep $interval;
        }
        else {
            $tcount = 0;
        }
}

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1
-2
\3
|4

/5
1
-2
\3
|4
/5
1
-2
\3
|4
/5
1
-2
\3
|4
/5

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Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

In reply to Re: Twirling baton progress indicator in Perl by GrandFather
in thread Twirling baton progress indicator in Perl by axl163

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