Rewinding std::cout to go back to the beginning of a line

Question

I\'m writing a command-line tool for Mac OS X that processes a bunch of files. I would like to show the user the current file being processed, but do not want a bazillion fi

Answer 1

I don't have access to a mac, but from a pure console standpoint, this is going to be largely dependent on how it treats the carriage return and line-feed characters. If you can literally send one or the other to the console, you want to send just a carriage return.

I'm pretty sure Mac treats both carriage returns and line-feeds differently than *nix & windows.

If you're looking for in-place updates (e.g. overwrite the current line), I'd recommend looking at the curses lib. This should provide a platform independent means of doing what you're looking for. (because, even using standard C++, there is no platform independent means of what you're asking for).