From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2008-08-11T06:07:47+09:00
Subject: Re: "puts" without line feed

Le 10 ao�t 2008 � 21:27, Bob Miner a �crit :

> so it rolls along "in place"

Try writing a "backspace" control caracter (ctrl-h, ascii code 8) ; for
example :

print "Countdown : 9"
9.downto(0) do |x|
  print "\C-h#{x}"
  sleep 1
end
puts

(I'm not entirely sure it's completely cross-platform, but this simple
example works well with Windows and Unixo�ds.)

Fred
-- 
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