Can't sleep properly...

I'm a newbie C programmer and am having trouble using sleep(i); whilst trying to write to a single line. Im using said function inside a for loop.
To write to the same line I use \r.
Everytime I compile and run the exe, nothing is displayed on the screen until the program has finished executing.

what is the '/_' thing do anyway?

i mean '\_' thing do anyway?

It makes you ask questions

escape sequences....
for example

Code:

cout << "Hi There!" << endl;
cout << "I'm on the next line!\n";
cout << "So am I! wait...but where's the endl?";

use a backslash '\' for an escape sequence. The Compiler will not print it. in your string say \n somewhere and it will go to the next line. use \t and it will skip 5 spaces(\t means tab). If you want to print a backslash, then type this:

Code:

cout << "Bonjour!\\Hello!\n";
cout << "Je m'eppelle Spongebob.\n\\\nmy name is SpongeBob.";

That should print:
Bonjour!\Hello!
Je m'eppelle Spongebob.
\\
My name is SpongeBob.
Get it?

You can also use it to make a beep eg.
cout << "Hello, BEEP \a" << endl; \\ or \n