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Re: Printing to command line without a new line [message #78219 is a reply to message #78218]

Wed, 02 November 2011 14:19

Russell[1]
Messages: 101
Registered: August 2011

Senior Member

You need to use the C-style printing and use the ANSI escape
sequences. Here's a quick script I used, based on ITT's examples.

pro inline_print

for i=0,10 do begin
ii=strcompress(string(i,f='(I3)'),/rem)
print,f='(%"\33[1M I have %s monkeys\33[1A")',ii
wait,0.1
endfor
print,''

end

On Nov 2, 2:19 pm, "jasmeervir...@gmail.com" <jasmeervir...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a fairly simple question.
> My code takes a fair amount of time to run and I would like
> it to display a percentage number which updates to the
> command line without starting a new line.
>
> So using print one usually does:
>
> for i=0, 100-1, 1 do print, i, '%'
>
> but this creates a long list of numbers. How can I stop a newline
> being created by the print command
>
> I hope this is clear. Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> Cheers

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		Re: Printing to command line without a new line By: Nikola on Thu, 03 November 2011 01:56
		Re: Printing to command line without a new line By: Craig Markwardt on Wed, 02 November 2011 22:15
		Re: Printing to command line without a new line By: Russell[1] on Wed, 02 November 2011 14:19
		Re: Printing to command line without a new line By: Michael Galloy on Wed, 02 November 2011 14:23
		Re: Printing to command line without a new line By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 November 2011 12:47
		Re: Printing to command line without a new line By: jasmeervirdee@gmail.c on Wed, 02 November 2011 12:19
		Re: Printing to command line without a new line By: David Fanning on Wed, 02 November 2011 11:48

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