Errata: The "last" print statement in the 'while' loop is the focus......
Tony Esposito Oracle Developer, Enterprise Business Intelligence XO Communications Plano, TX 75074 Work Phone: 972-516-5344 Work Cell: 972-670-6144 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Esposito, Anthony Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 'print' output on one line I have a perl program ( with DBI ) which prints out a line to STDOUT after every 100 database commits. I would like the 'print' to just refresh the current line every time but - not knowing how to get around it - the program instead prints a new line every 100 commits like so: INFO 3: start deleting rows. Rows deleted: 100 Rows deleted: 200 Rows deleted: 300 Rows deleted: 400 . . . INFO 4: delete_rows.pl program ended. I would like the output to just stay on one line and just update the count as the program proceeds. So the output - when done - would just be INFO 3: start deleting rows. Rows deleted: 400 INFO 4: delete_rows.pl program ended. Is there a 'print' option/escape character the sends the file pointer ( for STDOUT in this case ) back to the beginning of the line? Here is the current code segment - the focus here is on the last 'print' statement: print "INFO 3: start deleting rows.\n"; while(($row_data) = $sth1->fetchrow) { if(! defined ($sth2->execute($row_data))) { # execute DELETE print "ERROR 4: execute of DELETE statement failed.\n"; exit(int 4); } $row_counter = $row_counter + 1; if($row_counter >= 100) { $dbh->commit; $rows_deleted = $rows_deleted + $row_counter; print "Rows deleted: $rows_deleted\n"; $row_counter = 0; } } print "INFO 4: $0 program ended.\n"; Thanks for any help you can offer.... Tony Esposito Oracle Developer, Enterprise Business Intelligence XO Communications Plano, TX 75074 Work Phone: 972-516-5344 Work Cell: 972-670-6144 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>