Your indentation sucks. :-)

Maybe it should set inited to 0 or something when it prints the newline? Then it would be possible to reuse the bar if the process has multiple steps.

/ Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!)

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2003-12-14 15:05: Subject: convenience function

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Any good place to put this convenience function? I seem to use it a lot, so I thought I should just add it to the tree.

function(int,int:void) progress_bar(string name,int steps) { int inited=0; int lastpos=0;

return lambda(int n,int m) { if (!inited) write(name+"["+"."*steps+"]\r"+name+"["),inited=1; int pos=(steps*n)/m; if (pos!=lastpos) { write("#"*(pos-lastpos)); lastpos=pos; } if (n==m) write("\n"); }; }

It will output a progress bar, like

my progress: [##########_ ]

and end it with \n when it's full.

/ Mirar

things like that might be good for the hacks on the (not yet officially opened) pike community site.

greetings, martin.