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Re: Overwriting the terminal output line [message #29411 is a reply to message #29323]

Fri, 15 February 2002 04:03

R.Bauer
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Kenneth Bowman wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to overwrite the terminal output line?
>
> The following does not do what I want:
>
> IDL> FOR i = 0, 10 DO PRINT, i, FORMAT = "($, 'i = ' ,I4, T1)"
> i = 0i = 1i = 2i = 3i = 4i = 5i = 6i = 7i = 8i = 9i = 10IDL>
>
> The $ supresses the newline, but T1 does not reposition the
> pointer to the beginning of the line.
>
> I would like to see:
>
> IDL> FOR i = 0, 10 DO PRINT, i, FORMAT = "('i = ' ,I4, ?????)"
> i = 10
>
> Where "i = 10" has overwritten "i = 9", etc.
>
> Thanks, Ken

All in one line is done with

IDL> FOR i = 0, 10 DO PRINT, i, FORMAT = "($-, 'i = ' ,I4,T1)"
i = 0i = 1i = 2i = 3i = 4i = 5i = 6i = 7i =
8i = 9i = 10IDL>

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Reimar

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