Clearing a Character

as a Noobie programmer I was messing with C++ and was wondering if thier was a way to get a few dots that I have before I clear a screen to disapear and then loop.

Code:

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int n()
{
cout << "\n Say good bye!\a";
cout << "\n\nClearing Screen\a";
cout << ".\a";
cout << ".\a";
cout << ".\a";
cout << ".\a";
cout << ".\a";
cout << ".\a";
cout << ".\a";
cout << ".\a";
cout << ".\a";
cout << ".\a";
cout << ".\a";
system("cls");
main();
}

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that apears as

Quote:

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Say good bye!

Clearing Screen...........

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and each "." apears like a normal loading screen. What I want it to do is to have the dots disapear and start over atleast once.

You could print \b's (backspaces). You could change the buffer entirely, print a \r (control return) and re-print it. On windows, you could look into the ::FileConsoleOutputCharacter(..) console API. I dunno, lots of solutions, all are a bit quirky and hackish, but it's all in good fun of seeing your program have a nifty oscillating elipses (aka: useless).

Alright I'll try the "\b" Thanks.

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Combining that with spaces then more \b worked great thanks. Thats just want I wanted it to do.