Need For Clear Screen

[adithya4u4ever]

Hi Friends In We Write Clrscr() Function .similarly Is There Any Function Like That In Java.
Then Specify Function With Package Also...

[Eranga]

Can you explain what you want to do exactly? What your Clrscr() function do? You must provide more details if you want to find a solution.

[angryboy]

no api in java that does that. (non that i know of anyways.) just use println("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");

[emceenugget]

what angryboy said, but you may want to use an excess of line breaks. it really depends on the size of the terminal.

[angryboy]

i here by declare the first java clrscr()!!

  public static void clrscr(){
    for(int i=0; i<1000; i++)
      System.out.print("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");
      // a set of 10 newlines.
  }

i think 10k \n should be enought on both unix and dos.

[Eranga]

Is this what our thread starter wants to find? He's talking about clearing up something, here just printing large number of new line characters. So not empty, right.

[CJSLMAN]

Eranga: What the OP is looking for is a "clear screen" method ... sort of like what C has. This method doesn't exist in Java, so what AB suggests is to just print an enormous amount of new lines to clear the screen.

CJSL

[angryboy]

thanks for clearing that up chris. :)

actually, i realize that you can't always assume there is a console to print to. So its better to use Console.printf instead (if its not null, that is).

[Eranga]

Eranga: What the OP is looking for is a "clear screen" method ... sort of like what C has. This method doesn't exist in Java, so what AB suggests is to just print an enormous amount of new lines to clear the screen.

CJSL

Yes Chris, I'm clear on with what AB post in his earlier post. But the question is, just not like in C, here printed some new lines. What I wonder is either C doing this. Because new line is a character, as far as I believe. If so the screen is not empty.