From: Patrick Spence <patrick@...>
Date: 2006-11-04T04:17:41+09:00
Subject: Re: counter

Lucas Handelsman wrote:
> Pretty new to ruby (and programming but am getting better).
> 
> I am importing data with DBI and I want display and counter as each row 
> is imported.  I can get the display to show:
> 
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
> 9
> 10
> etc...
> 
> but I don't want a linebreak after the counter is displayed.  I want it 
> just to keep refreshing itself, basically.  Am I missing something with 
> puts or print or p?  Any ideas?

1.upto(50) {|index|
  print("\b" * index.to_s().length << index.to_s())
  sleep(0.2)
}

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