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Re: Overwriting printings [message #20461 is a reply to message #20449]

Thu, 22 June 2000 00:00

dominik
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Registered: June 2000

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In article <395214A5.BA0D21B1@mathstat.dal.ca>,
simon@mathstat.dal.ca wrote:

> Is there a way to get IDL to overwrite the previous print output,
> ratherthan starting a new line? I'm running IDL in Linux..

the `$' format character disables the automatic newline,
the character control-k kill the current output line.
Use something like this:

for i=1,1000 do begin
print,format='(A,A,$)',string(13b),string(i)
endfor
print,'' ; terminate the current line

-Carsten

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		Re: Overwriting printings By: Paul van Delst on Fri, 23 June 2000 00:00
		Re: Overwriting printings By: promashkin on Thu, 22 June 2000 00:00
		Re: Overwriting printings By: John-David T. Smith on Thu, 22 June 2000 00:00
		Re: Overwriting printings By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 22 June 2000 00:00
		Re: Overwriting printings By: Simon de Vet on Thu, 22 June 2000 00:00
		Re: Overwriting printings By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 22 June 2000 00:00
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