Well, that should work, basically, for strings of non-decreasing length.

If the OP expects that some of the strings to print may decrease in length, then saving the length, so that an appropriate number of spaces can be added to shorter strings to wipe out the prior longer string, could be helpful.

Further, depending on the terminal (or console window) type, if the string exceeds the terminal's line width, there may be some wrap-around that is not recoverable, except via curses (Unix) or some other OS-specific facilities. If the OP expects that some of the lines may exceed the line width of the terminal, then some method of abbreviating the line, showing the most important data, and staying within the line width, could be helpful.

In reply to Re^2: Print string in same line by AlwaysLearning
in thread Print string in same line by pau_G

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