Print a carriage return in java on windows on console

Question

On my OS X machine, the following line gives me a nice and easy way to track the state of my loops:

for (int index = 0; index < 100; index++)
    for (int         


        

Answer 1

By "Windows" you mean cmd.exe? And you want to overwrite to the line you previously output, right? Unfortunately I think you need to invoke this Win32 API somehow in order to achieve it

• SetConsoleCursorPosition
  • Cf. Calling Win32 API method from Java

Maybe other Java gurus can provide better answer ...

Answer 2

I had the statement and it worked in the command prompt

System.out.println("This is Java"+'\r'+"That");

and gives me output as

That is Java

That means it works perfectly.

Note: I run it in Windows 7 with JDK 7 and simple notepad.

It is the problem of eclipse, it will take \r as a new line character and will print

This is Java
That

as output

Answer 3

If you are on Eclipse, you have to enable the control character option on the Console Window.