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wheelscribe - 11 Sep 2005 13:27 GMT

Hello,

I've looked far and wide for the answer to this question without any
success. Is there a method in Java that clears output to
System.out.println? My goal is to pass output to the line then erase it
so that I don't have repeating lines in my loop. Any help is much
appreciated.

Thanks,
Ben

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Gordon Beaton - 11 Sep 2005 14:17 GMT

> I've looked far and wide for the answer to this question without any
> success. Is there a method in Java that clears output to
> System.out.println? My goal is to pass output to the line then erase
> it so that I don't have repeating lines in my loop. Any help is much
> appreciated.

Most terminals let you return to the start of the line when you print
a carriage return (not a newline). You can't do this across multiple
lines though. Use System.out.print("\r") (not println()).

/gordon

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wheelscribe - 11 Sep 2005 15:12 GMT

>>I've looked far and wide for the answer to this question without any
>>success. Is there a method in Java that clears output to
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> /gordon

That's exactly what I needed to know. Thank you.

== Ben

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Roedy Green - 13 Sep 2005 07:54 GMT

>Is there a method in Java that clears output to
>System.out.println?

See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/console.html

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