how to go back on previous line with printf

[David Haddon]

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 23:52 -0700, pauljoseph wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there anyway we can move the cursor back to the previous line using
> printf? For example if I do
> 
> printf('test line 1.\n');
> 
> The \n will change to the next line. May I know what character I can use to
> go back to the "test line 1." and put the cursor back after the dot?
> 
> Thanks.

If you use '\r' that will take you to the beginning of the line.


for i = 1:10
    printf("Line %d of 10 \r",i)
endfor

This will print the message on the same line in a standard Octave shell.
When testing it, I found that it doesn't work under the QtOctave
though...  QtOctave does make some changes though.

I hope this helps.

David