From: Fred Phillips <fophillips@...>
Date: 2008-08-11T07:19:27+09:00
Subject: Re: "puts" without line feed

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On Mon Aug 11 04:27:56 2008, Bob Miner wrote:
> uze guyz are SO close.
>=20
> Print gives me
>=20
> 123456.......*to a new line*.......*to another new line*.....
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> I'm tryin for
>=20
> 1
>=20
> then
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> 2 (where 1 was)
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> then
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> 3 (where 1, then 2 were)
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> so it rolls along "in place"
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> Kinda silly, I know.....I guess I should be happy the darn thing runs &=
=20
> does what I want at all, eh?
> Thanks for kind & timely responses.

You need to flush $stdout and move to the beginning of the line each
time:

 jump =3D "\r\e[0K" # That is return to beginning of line and use the
                  # ANSI clear command "\e" or "\003"
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 (1..10).each do |i|
   print jump + i
   sleep 1
   $stdout.flush
 end

That should sort you.

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Fred O. Phillips
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