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I would like to periodically output a progress percentage but don't want a huge list of numbers cluttering the rest of the outputs. How can this be accomplished?

print("hello")
print("\rworld")

This doesn't work because \r adds a new line.

[Andreas Noack Jensen]

Not on my machine

julia> print("hello");print("\rworld!")
world!

Which operation system and which version of Julia are you running?

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Andreas Noack Jensen

[RecentConvert]

Julia Version 0.2.1

Commit e44b593* (2014-02-11 06:30 UTC)

Platform Info:

  System: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)

Windows 7

[Tobias Knopp]

I can confirm this behavior under 0.3 prerelease on windows. The following works however

julia> print("hello");print("\b\b\b\b\bworld!")
world!

I think this should be filed as an issue at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia

[RecentConvert]

print("hello");print("\b\b\b\
b\bworld!")

This works in the basic terminal but not in Julia Studio.

[Tobias Knopp]

Julia Studio is an entirely different issue as they might have implemented their own REPL (terminal).
The issue should be reported here: https://github.com/forio/julia-studio/issues.

[Tim Holy]

Pkg.add("ProgressMeter")

--Tim

[Tobias Knopp]

Awesome! Did not know that.