Hi monks,

I've got the following little test, but i cant seem to get it to print a backspace in the textarea field.
Does anyone know if this is possible?

#!/usr/bin/perl
$| = 1;

use strict;
use warnings;

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "Starting Test<br>\n";
print "<textarea rows=1 style=\"border:1px #FFFFFF solid; overflow:hid
+den;\">";

my $count = 0;
for (my $i = 1; $i <= 16; $i++) {
        print ".";
        $count++;
        print "\b\b\b\b" if ($count == 4);
        $count = 0 if ($count == 4);
        sleep(1);
} # end-for

print "</textarea><br>";
print "Completed Test!\n";
exit(0);

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Also, on a side note, could someone tell me how to combine these two lines into one :) ;
print "\b\b\b\b" if ($count == 4);
$count = 0 if ($count == 4);

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I guess i could do:
if ($count == 4) { $count = 0; print "\b\b\b\b"; }

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but it seems somewhat inelegant.

Cheers,
Reagen

In reply to print a backspace in nph-"HTML"? by rsiedl

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