Re: Manipulating cursor position when printing to STDOUT

You can also use \r to back up over the whole line; this may actually be faster as it allows CMD to erase the line as a unit (you should time it).

Or you could use ANSI escape sequences, but it would mean sending more characters.

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Re: Re: Manipulating cursor position when printing to STDOUT by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Jul 17, 2001 at 01:45 UTC
The Win32 console doesn't understand ANSI escape sequences. I don't know why that wasn't at least an option, since it was available on DOS (optional) and OS/2 (built in). If you use \r, make sure you print enough trailing spaces to erase what it said before.	[reply]