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Re: Printing to command line without a new line [message #78230 is a reply to message #78225]

Wed, 02 November 2011 11:48

David Fanning
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jasmeervirdee@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

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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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