the difference between \r and \n

[YarvinG Liu]

i write two codes:
printf("123\r");
printf("123\n");
the lattar. as we all know. the output will be:
123
press any key to continue

but the formmer will be:
press any key to continue

which means data:123 has lost.
Y?

[Richard Heathfield]

YarvinG Liu said:

i write two codes:
printf("123\r");
printf("123\n");
the lattar. as we all know. the output will be:
123
press any key to continue

but the formmer will be:
press any key to continue

which means data:123 has lost.

Right.

Y?

I don't understand. If you mean "Why?", however, the answer is that writing
a '\r' character to the standard output stream moves the active position
to the initial position of the current line. It would seem that your IDE
then writes "press any key to continue" to the standard output stream,
starting at that position, and therefore overwriting your "123" text.

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[Dan]

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>i write two codes:
printf("123\r");
printf("123\n");
the lattar. as we all know. the output will be:
123
press any key to continue

but the formmer will be:
press any key to continue

which means data:123 has lost.
Y?

\r move the cursor back to the start of the line, the "press any key.." is
then written over the top of 123. Its probably safest to always go \r\n if
you are on windows systems.

[Richard Heathfield]

Dan said:

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\r move the cursor back to the start of the line, the "press any key.."
is then written over the top of 123. Its probably safest to always go
\r\n if you are on windows systems.

No, that's pointless - \n is perfectly adequate on *all* systems, including
Windows. The stdout stream is a text stream. Like all text streams, if you
write a '\n' to it, any necessary conversions *will* be done by the
implementation.

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