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Re: Printing to command line without a new line [message #78225 is a reply to message #78222]

Wed, 02 November 2011 12:19

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jasmeervirdee@gmail.c
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On Nov 2, 6:48 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>> 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?
>
> http://www.idlcoyote.com/fileio_tips/lfsuppress.html
>
> Like this:
>
> 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
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> 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.")

Hi,

Thanks for the response.

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
and
be replaced by the new number, so that I have one number which is
constantly updated.

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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