Clearing Screen

[yfactor]

Hello all. I am having a problem with my c++ code. I am attempting to clear the text off of the command prompt screen in a text based game program. I put a restart option using a goto in my program. How would I be able to clear all previously displayed text.

[Darkmaster]

use a bunch of newlines, and just move the old output out of sight

[yfactor]

Could i see an example of using a newline?

[Darkmaster]

std::cout << std::endl;

[joneele]

how about CMD?

system("cls");

[L B]

http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/4z18T05o/


In a nutshell:
std::cout << std::string(300, '\n') << std::endl;

Do not use system()!

[joneele]

i know system is evil but in his case probably not!

[yfactor]

When I used

system("cls");

it did not work, however when I added

#include <cstdlib>

it worked perfectly, thanks!