what is the use of gotoxy() in c

[monty kanwar]

i am getting unable to find the answer that how gotoxy() is used in c

[Nepomuk]

Hi!

Put the following code into a file, save, compile, run, see what it does.

#include <conio.h>
#include <stdio.h>
 
int main(void) {
  int i;
  printf("This is the first line.\n");
  gotoxy(10,4);
  printf("This is the second line.\n");
  gotoxy(20,8);
  printf("And this is line 3.\n");
  return 0;
}

If it doesn't work, you're probably not using a Windows/DOS machine. In that case, you'll have to implement your own gotoxy function, as was done here.

Greetings,
Nepomuk

[donbock]

gotoxy() is not in the Standard C Library; thus there is no standard definition of what it does. Functions of the same name from different sources probably do different things. (For example, every main() function does something different.) Where did your gotoxy() function come from?