I haven't tested it but your code needed reworking so that the downloaded version would compile.

Update: I wrapped it in a test script for you :). I also added flushing and a sleep to simulate something running slowly (which we were tracking).

#! d:/perl/bin/perl -w

use strict;
$|++;

my $min = 1;
my $max = 100;

while($min != $max)
{
        sleep(1);
    StatusBar('before',$min,$max,25,'y','after');
    $min++;
}

sub StatusBar {
  my $level;
  my $numdots;
  my $numblanks;

  my $pre=$_[0];
  my $cur=int($_[1]);
  my $max=int($_[2]);
  my $size=int($_[3]);
  my $disp="$_[4]";
  my $i;
  my $post=$_[5];

  $level = $cur/$max;
  
  $numdots = int($level * $size);

  $numblanks = $size - $numdots;

  print $pre . "\t";
  print " [";
  for($i = 0; $i < $numdots; $i++) {
    print ".";
  }
  for($i = 0; $i < $numblanks; $i++) {
    print " ";
  }
  print "]";
  if($disp ne "") {
    printf(" ($cur/$max, %3.2f%%)", (int($level*10000)/100));
  }
  print " $post\r";
}
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Simon

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