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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Scilab’ers,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The following code, when executed from SciNotes in Scilab 5x, printed the loop progress to console, at same location, thanks to printf ("\r").<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The printf behaviour seems to have changed in Scilab 6x, and the strings are now printed one after the other.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:#32B9B9">printf</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:#4A55DB">(</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:rosybrown">"Print
loop progress at same place in console (was OK in Scilab 5x):\n"</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:#4A55DB">)</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:black">;</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:black">N</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif">
<span style="color:#5C5C5C">=</span> <span style="color:rosybrown">1e5</span><span style="color:black">;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:black">j</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:#5C5C5C">=</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:rosybrown">1</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:black">;</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">i</span><span style="color:#5C5C5C">=</span><span style="color:rosybrown">1</span><span style="color:#FFAA00">:</span><span style="color:black">N</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#A020F0">if</span> <u><span style="color:#AE5CB0">modulo</span></u><span style="color:#4A55DB">(</span><span style="color:black">i,</span><span style="color:#32B9B9">int</span><span style="color:#4A55DB">(</span><span style="color:black">N</span><span style="color:#5C5C5C">/</span><span style="color:rosybrown">10</span><span style="color:#4A55DB">))</span><span style="color:#5C5C5C">==</span><span style="color:rosybrown">0</span>
<span style="color:#A020F0">then</span> <i><span style="color:#64AE64">// Print progress by steps of 10%</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#32B9B9">printf</span><span style="color:#4A55DB">(</span><span style="color:rosybrown">"Progress = %i%s\r"</span><span style="color:black">,j</span><span style="color:#5C5C5C">*</span><span style="color:rosybrown">10</span><span style="color:black">,</span><span style="color:rosybrown">"%"</span><span style="color:#4A55DB">)</span><span style="color:black">;</span>
<i><span style="color:#64AE64">// carriage return, prints at same place on console</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:black">j</span><span style="color:#5C5C5C">=</span><span style="color:black">j</span><span style="color:#5C5C5C">+</span><span style="color:rosybrown">1</span><span style="color:black">;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#A020F0">end</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif;color:#A020F0">end</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Monospaced",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Is it still possible to print at same place to console in Scilab 6x?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Rafael<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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