a printf thing

[GanglyLamb]

its a console app compiled in BC 4.5
is there an easy way to printf a status to the screen
for example

printf("Status:%d%%",status);

now status the variable goes from 0 till 100 but is there anyway that i can make only the percentage change because else u get something like
/*outprint*/
Status:1%
Status:2%
Status:3%

and so on and what i want is something like
Status:and here a number that changes%

i tried to printf then formfeed or clrscr and then printf again but if
%d,status goes at 1%/sec then you see it clears the screen
anyway mayb somebody knows this ....if its possible in a console app

[Pioneer]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

waitie(double seconds){
    clock_t end = clock() + (seconds * CLOCKS_PER_SEC);

    while (clock() < end)
        ;
}

main(){
    int stat = 0;

    while (stat < 100){
        printf("Status:%d%%\r", stat++);
        waitie(.2);
    }

    printf("Complete...\n");
}

[Pioneer]

Can you explain why it's trash, please?

[GanglyLamb]

Sorry, but this code is trash and you do yourself and everbody who uses your programs a favour if you don't put that into your source. Use Sleep( ) from windows.h or sleep( ) from unistd.h.

=>
thx VvV it works just fine.
im stupified tosay this but i didnt even know there was an escape sequence \r :$ =>i think thist is what u get if u start learning c without any book except for the library reference in the compiler..;;

[moi]

i don't think \r is standard, but it works it's carridge return w/o linefeed, moves the cursor back to beginning of line.

[Pioneer]

That's a good reason, thanks. But seeing as how I'm the only user I'll do what I want. If I write a program for something multi-user then I'll use a better waiting function. Also, windows.h and unistd.h can't be used everywhere, my function can, anti-social or not. One last thing, you could be a little nicer when you bash someone else's programs, imagine how I felt when you said it was trash with no apparent reason.

[Pioneer]

I'll survive if my music hangs for a little bit. About the conditional compilation, I've seen a lot of different ways to do it, would this work?

#include <stdio.h>

#if !defined(_WIN32)
    #include <unistd.h>
#else
    #include <windows.h>
    #define sleep Sleep
#endif

main(){
    int stat = 0;

    while (stat < 100){
        printf("Status:%d%%\r", stat++);
        sleep(100);
    }

    printf("Complete...\n");
}

Or should I test for unistd.h?