in reply to Re^2: scalar or sub that can tell me the terminal print offset ?
in thread scalar or sub that can tell me the terminal print offset ?

>but I find it hard to believe this doesn't already exists.

most probably this is just an xy problem. i.e. you are trying to solve a problem in a wrong way.

I slightly remember a BASIC dialect which had such a feature to allow positioning the cursor, but in Perl I never missed this.

IMHO in reality you'd rather prefer using

  • printf or
  • format or
  • templates with here-docs or
  • Term::ReadLine or
  • GUI-library like Tk

    (just some plausible guesses).

    If all of this is wrong and you don't wanna give us more insights, you can still try writing a routine out() to replace your prints, which automatically splits the arguments at newlines and counts the length of the last line in a global var $OUTPOS.

    Cheers Rolf

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