Clear screen

I have a strange question.

Is thier a clear screen function iostream.h?

I ask this because I'm in a programming class where the teacher only allows you to use files already loaded on his system, so I can't use conio.h, or any of the other wonderful include files I have come to know and love (I never thought I'd say this, but I miss apstrings.....).

And what's worse is that I have to program in a stripped down linux compilier so I can't use any of the microsoft files.

Any ideas?

Ask your teacher
a) is clear screen required for completing my assignments?
b) is there a clear screen function in the environment you provide?

If the answer to both is "no", then its easiest to forget about it.

But if you're really desperate

Code:

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for ( int i = 0 ; i < 30 ; i++ ) cout << endl;

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Is a reasonably portable way of achieving what you want


Or how about

Code:

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system("clear");

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Or even

Code:

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cout << "\033[2J";

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