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Re: Printing to command line without a new line [message #78218 is a reply to message #78217]

Wed, 02 November 2011 22:15

Craig Markwardt
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Registered: November 1996

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On Nov 2, 3:19 pm, "jasmeervir...@gmail.com" <jasmeervir...@gmail.com>
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> On Nov 2, 6:48 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
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>> jasmeervir...@gmail.com writes:
>>> 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.
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>>> So using print one usually does:
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>>> for i=0, 100-1, 1 do print, i, '%'
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>>> but this creates a long list of numbers. How can I stop a newline
>>> being created by the print command
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>>> I hope this is clear. Does anyone know how to do this?
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>> http://www.idlcoyote.com/fileio_tips/lfsuppress.html
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>> Like this:
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>> IDL> for i=0, 15 do print, i, format='((x, I0),$)'
>> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
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>> Cheers,
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>> David
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>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.idlcoyote.com/
>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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> Hi,
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> Thanks for the response.
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> It wasn't quite what I was looking for. This prints all the numbers in
> the for loop
> on a single line but what I want is the previous number to disappear
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> be replaced by the new number, so that I have one number which is
> constantly updated.

Greetings-- This is why I invented STATUSLINE!

Craig

P.S. It can be found here:
http://www.physics.wisc.edu/~craigm/idl/misc.html

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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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