How could I achieve gotoxy() in gcc

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Muthu Ganapathy Nathan picture Muthu Ganapathy Nathan · Aug 24, 2011 · Viewed 10.1k times · Source

I am using gcc in ubuntu.so, I compile and execute in terminal. But In a online programming contest, they require the output as shown in diagram.

required output

For that, if I use TURBOC I can get it using conio.h using gotoxy() to get spiral format of output. But in Ubuntu , How could I achieve this?

Answer

Duck picture Duck · Aug 24, 2011

Assuming because it is a contest and they don't want dependencies like ncurses you could try to do it in memory.

Set up 2 dimensional array of char - lines and columns - say 24x80. Write your own version of gotoxy() which assigns values into the proper cells. When done plotting, print out the array of lines.

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