humble,

If your working on a *nix system, you could use the 'tput' command. There may be something similar in Windows but someone else will have to answer that. Use 'tput' as below (untested): 

  my $rows = qx/tput lines/; my $curor_up = qx/tput cuu1/;
  for my $no ( 0..10 )
  {   print "$no. Hello World!\n$curor_up";
  }

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I use this technique to show status of a long running script, but I use 'time' to print the status every so many seconds. I did't use '$rows', but that tells you how many lines are on the screen. So you could move the cursor to the bottom -2 and display the results at the bottom of the screen. Also 'tput' is a system commands, so try to use it outside of loops for performance reasons.

Good Luck!

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

In reply to Re: Controlling already printed text to console. by flexvault
in thread Controlling already printed text to console. by humble

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