Terminal control/Cursor positioning

Terminal control/Cursor positioning is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

Move the cursor to column 3, row 6 and display the word "Hello", so that the letter H is in column 3 on row 6.

BASIC

Locomotive Basic

<lang basic> 10 LOCATE 3,6

20 PRINT "Hello"</lang>

ZX Spectrum Basic

<lang basic> 10 REM The top left corner is at position 0,0

20 REM So we subtract one from the coordinates
30 PRINT AT 5,2 "Hello"</lang>

Forth

<lang forth>2 5 at-xy ." Hello"</lang>

Logo

<lang logo>setcursor [2 5] type "Hello</lang> You can also draw positioned text on the turtle graphics window. <lang logo>setpos [20 50] setxy 20 30  ; alternate way to set position label "Hello</lang>

PureBasic

<lang PureBasic>EnableGraphicalConsole(#True) ConsoleLocate(3,6) Print("Hello")</lang>

REXX

This example is incorrect. Please fix the code and remove this message. Details: There is no code that actually does the task; assertions of possibility are insufficient.

The Rexx programming language does not include terminal control as part of the language. However, it might be possible to output ANSI control sequences, and there are various workarounds which are platform specific:

Library: rexxcurses

Works with: regina

The regina interpreter supports the rexxcurses plugin, which provides the facility to set the cursor position:

Retro

<lang Retro>with console'

hello 3 6 at-xy "Hello" puts ;</lang>

Tcl

<lang tcl>exec tput cup 6 3 >/dev/tty puts "Hello"</lang>