On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Richard Zimmerman wrote:
> I am a recent newcomer to Per land have been enjoying learning a new language.
> However, I've got a question. In my looking around I've yet been able to find
> an answer.
>
> In QuickBasic 7.1 (the old language I'm ditching) I used to be able to set
> where the cursor was on the screen (i.e.: locate 12, 26) which would set the
> cursor 12 rows down, 26 columns over. Is there such an equivalent in Perl? A
> lot of the applications I'm looking into moving from DOS/QB to Linux involve
> formatted screens if you will.
You'll want to look into using the Curses module with Perl for addressable
cursor capabilities like that.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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