From: "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Date: 2009-05-17T07:59:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Console output

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Hello There:

> I need to update a whole table, many lines, is it tough luck =3D/

In this case, you can either use ncurses (hopefully, through some=20
platform-agnostic gem) or =E2=80=93 if that=E2=80=99s feasible =E2=80=93 cl=
ear the screen
every iteration and print the whole table; something to the tune of=20

case RUBY_PLATFORM
when /linux/          then `clear`
when /win32/, /mswin/ then `clrscr`
end

Note: The above code is untested and extremly na=C3=AFve,
you should probably use something like the platform gem:=20
http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/platform/platform_0_4.rb
(except it=E2=80=99s old and there is a much newer gem that does
this; unfortunately, its name escapes me right now).

=E2=80=94 Shot
--=20
Gore Vidal was once head-butted by Norman Mailer, not the other way
round. Vidal described the altercation as =E2=80=98marshmallow to marshmall=
ow=E2=80=99
when asked about it at the Hay festival 2008.           [The Guardian]

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