Thread: deleting characters

There is no standard way to go back up on the screen.

To "go back", you'd need a funciton like "gotoxy()" in Turbo C, which places the cursor at a defined X and Y coordinate point.

This is not part of C/C++ standards, but rather specific to each OS/Compiler implementation.

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Mats

"make" on linux is not a compiler - you are probably using gcc.

On Linux (and to some extent in Windows) you can use ANSI escape codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_color

In Windows, you can use SetConsoleCursorPosition (one of several Console Functions that can be found here:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...73(VS.85).aspx).

Miracle C is not a good compiler from what I hear - you can get the same compiler as on Linux, gcc, in the gcc-mingw package, which is a high quality compiler [and with the added advantage of being very similar for both Linux and Windows, so you don't have to keep so many things in mind when moving from one to the other].

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Mats

Originally Posted by robwhit

\b doesn't delete the text, it just repositions the cursor. To delete the previous character, output a \b and a space.

Yes, but it also works to do "abc\b\b\bdef", and you will see "def" on the screen (and not like on an old typewriter, abc overwritten by def.

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Mats