gotoxy

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Header File

conio.h

Category

Console I/O Routines

Prototype

void gotoxy(int x, int y);

Description

Positions cursor in text window.

gotoxy moves the cursor to the given position in the current text window. If the coordinates are in any way invalid the call to gotoxy is ignored. An example of this is a call to gotoxy(40,30) when (35,25) is the bottom right position in the window. Neither argument to gotoxy can be zero.

Note: Do not use this function in Win32 GUI applications.

Return Value

None.

Example

#include <conio.h>
int main(void)
{
    clrscr();
    gotoxy(35, 12);
    cprintf("Hello world");
    getch();
    return 0;
}