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    Question system("cls") question!

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    Hello everyone, new one here :).
    
    Well I've just got one simple question: Does anybody know if the system("cls") command can be limited? I mean, that it doesn't erase all of the screen but up to certain point.
    
    For example, if there is a ascii art in the begining, and a "menu" then, and let's say everytime I select an option, I want to erase the menu (to show the new one) but not the screen.
    
    So basically, can it be limited with a {} for example or something?
    
    Thanks.

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    The answer to your question is cls cannot erase only an area, it will clear the screen. CLS itself is just a tiny executable that you can invoke on a command line, and there is no option like the one you want.

    I don't think it is worth the effort to do anything more complicated than deleting the whole console screen and redrawing whatever you actually want, anyway. You'd spend maybe 30 minutes coding time doing it your way to save 0.0026 seconds of the end users time.

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    It sounds like you might want to consider using conio or *curses.
    I copied it from the last program in which I passed a parameter, which would have been pre-1989 I guess. - esbo

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    to whiteflags: ok thanks for the answer, really helpful.

    to NeonBlack: using conio... conio is a library, which command? and no idea what *curses is :S.

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    jajaj, thanks a lot men, you guys really care to help .

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