Counting Up and Down... time/percent

I would like to be able to print out a number... count up or down but the problem is I don't want to reprint the line every time the number goes up or down one unit. I have heard of clearing the screen every time you reprint the line but I would rather not do that... For example using fdisk or format and it just counts up the percent.

I don't need to know how to count just how to reprint the variable without reprinting the whole line.

Thank You

look at the \b and the \r special characters

Code:

printf("test\b\b");

this prints "test" then deletes the ending t and s
\r simply moves the cursor to the beginning of the line.

if you're not interested in this fairly portable solution, you could look at gotoxy()

int x, y;

x = wherex(), y = wherey(); //...save coords..

gotoxy(2, 10); //...go to counter

printf("%i", count);

gotoxy(x, y); //...restore old coords...


...very non-portable, though. Windows machines...