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Nervous Newt answered on March 2, 2020 Popularity 6/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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/*
I don't that it is a good practice to use system commands (system("");) for
these specific tasks so I made a function for clearing the console screen in
C/C++ and it pretty much does the exact same functionality of the
system("cls"); but just without calling a system command. (It is for Windows)
you can copy this function to your C/C++ code so you can use this function to
clear the console screen but check that Windows.h library is included in your
code. Here is the code:
*/

void clrscr() {
    DWORD Unused = 0;
    CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO csbi;
    COORD zerozeroc = {0, 0};
    GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), &csbi);
    DWORD Length = csbi.dwSize.X * csbi.dwSize.Y;
    FillConsoleOutputCharacterW(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), ' ', Length, zerozeroc, &Unused);
    FillConsoleOutputAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), csbi.wAttributes, Length, zerozeroc, &Unused);
    SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), zerozeroc);
}

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Contributed on Aug 17 2023

Nervous Newt

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#include <Windows.h>

int main() {
	//print stuff
    
	system("cls"); // clear console
}

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Contributed on Mar 02 2020

Binary Killer

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system ("CLS");

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Contributed on Apr 06 2020

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#include<iostream>
#include<Windows.h>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  //code.
  system("cls");  //clear console.
  return 0;
}

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Contributed on Dec 15 2021

coder

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#ifdef __cplusplus__
  #include <cstdlib>
#else
  #include <stdlib.h>
#endif

if (system("CLS")) system("clear");

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Contributed on Dec 08 2020

BladedSage

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using the "system" function you enter a cmd command which is in this case "cls"

in code it will look something like this

	system("cls"); 

and it will clear your screen

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Contributed on Nov 12 2021

Light Dragon

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cout << "\x1B[3J\x1B[H";

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Contributed on Apr 02 2022

Famous Fish

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