\r just moves the cursor, it won't "update the line". Whatever you mean by that.
printf("hello world\rfoo bar\n");
would print
foo barorld
so it could be a matter of inserting spaces after your string?
On 2003-03-24 04:01pm, Amanda Wynne wrote:
> \r sort of works. Only it only updates the line about every 20th pass through
> the loop. Oh well.
>
> On Monday 24 Mar 2003 3:22 pm, Shane MacPhillamy wrote:
> > I think you are looking for \r - carriage return.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Shane
> >
> > On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 02:35 PM, Amanda Wynne wrote:
> > > if \n is newline, and \t is horizontal tab what's "home"; as in put
> > > the cursor
> > > back to the start of the current line? I've searched high & low, but
> > > can't
> > > seem to find any info anywhere.
> > >
> > > Amanda
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