Moving the cursor to erase text

[reef compass]

Is there a better way of doing this?

std::cout << "\x1b[A";
for (int i = 0; i < (str.length() + num); i++) {std::cout << " ";}
std::cout << "\r";```

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[reef compass]

I'm used to Python and my brain keeps telling me to do this xD

print("\033[A", " " * (len(string) + num), end="\r")

[plucky spade]

i don't think there's a good cross-platform way (in fact this code might not work on all platforms)

[reef compass]

Oh no

Oh well, works for most Linux terminals

I'd still want to know if I can generate a string of spaces instead of using a for loop

Oh... this might work

std::cout << std::string( 5, ' ' ) << std::endl;

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