in reply to Happy New Year!

So the backspace character doesn't work under some operating systems? ikegami suggested using it in a different thread, so I assumed it was universal.

This worked fine under Mac OS 9.

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Re^2: Happy New Year!
by jdalbec (Deacon) on Jan 02, 2006 at 16:31 UTC
    If you mean Re: Creating a Sparkle in perl, that's a 1-character "sparkle". You start getting unpredictable behavior when you add newlines to the mix. You might try looking into ANSI cursor positioning codes, although I don't know whether those would work in Mac OS 9. Are you running Perl under MPW?

    Obfuscated Perl is like Java - write once, test everywhere.

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