Re^2: Dynamically overwriting a line of text on stdout console

This in fact works:

    $\ = undef ;
    print 'somestuff';
    print "\rOVERWRITE\n";
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But I don't understand, because:

    print "Text";
    print " MoreText\n";
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Does not get printed as:

Text
 MoreText
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as $\ being "\n" would seem to imply. I am using version 5.005.

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