Perl: print back to beginning of line

Question

Okay, so what I\'m trying to do is print out a percentage complete to my command line, now, I would like this to simply \'update\' the number shown on the screen. So somehow

Answer 1

You can also use \b to move back one character:

local $| = 1; #flush immediately
print "Doing it - 10%";
sleep(1);
print "\b\b\b";
print "20%";
print "\n", "Done", "\n";