returning character to beginning of line

[ianfo]

Hi, is there a way to tell the print function to print at the beginning of the line? At the moment, i've cheated by using print "\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b$var"; but it's not very tidy!

Thanks

 

[jamisar]

what are you printing BEFORE this ?
did you also print a '\n' ? ------------ jamisar
Einfachheit ist das Resultat der Reife. (Friedrich Schiller)
Simplicity is the fruit of maturity.

 

[ianfo]

sorry, should have put some more details

There will be no newline before it as I want to print a string, then go to the beginning of the line and print another string (essentially over the top of the first string)

 

[jamisar]

a possible way:

printf("abba"
printf("\n\v"
printf("baab"
------------ jamisar
Einfachheit ist das Resultat der Reife. (Friedrich Schiller)
Simplicity is the fruit of maturity.

 

[ianfo]

That didn't help, sorry.

My program goes round in a loop and prints one string after another to the screen. I just need the printed string to appear in the same place the previous one did instead of being on a new line or appearing after the previous string on the same line...

 

[jamisar]

the samble above works for /bin/printf
for perl change "\n\v" by
"%c%c",10,11 # decimal vaules for \n and \v ------------ jamisar
Einfachheit ist das Resultat der Reife. (Friedrich Schiller)
Simplicity is the fruit of maturity.

 

[ianfo]

Got it working with the following....

print "\r$var";

Thanks for your help anyway )