Print a carriage return in java on windows on console

java windows newline carriage-return system.out
F.P picture F.P · Mar 5, 2012 · Viewed 16.9k times · Source

On my OS X machine, the following line gives me a nice and easy way to track the state of my loops:

for (int index = 0; index < 100; index++)
    for (int subIndex = index; subIndex < 100; subIndex++)
        System.out.print("\r" + index + "/" + subIndex + "       ");

But when I try to run the same thing on windows, it prints out newlines instead of a carriage return. How can I achieve the same simple method of tracking the process on windows?

Answer

Chandra Sekhar picture Chandra Sekhar · Mar 5, 2012

I had the statement and it worked in the command prompt

System.out.println("This is Java"+'\r'+"That");

and gives me output as

That is Java

That means it works perfectly.

Note: I run it in Windows 7 with JDK 7 and simple notepad.

It is the problem of eclipse, it will take \r as a new line character and will print

This is Java
That

as output

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