Since you don’t have a MAX counter, the progress you want to show is not a proportion of the total job, but just something that shows that ‘progress’ is being made. So, why would you need a CPAN module? Presumably, your output occurs in a loop, so:

my $progress = 100;    # adjust as needed
my $count    =   0;

while (...)
{
    ...

    show_progress() if (++$count % $progress == 0);
}

progress_complete();

# continue main code

sub show_progress
{
    print '*';
}

sub progress_completed
{
    print " completed\n";
}

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You don’t say whether the output is via console or GUI. The above is written for the console, but should be easily adaptable for a GUI if required.

HTH,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum

In reply to Re: Progress Bar in Perl script by Athanasius
in thread Progress Bar in Perl script by slayedbylucifer

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