Undo a newline (\n) printed to command line

Question

printf(\"Error %d\\n\", 1);
printf(\"\\nStatus: %d%%\", 50);

prints

Error 1

Status: 50%

In this set up, is ther

Answer 1

Sorry, you cannot.

But you may issue system calls to clear the whole screen instead, like system("clear") (OS-dependent).

Or use ncurses just as Kos mentioned in the comment.