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

10 LOCATE 3,6
20 PRINT "Hello"

ZX Spectrum 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"

PureBasic

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

Rexx

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:

regina

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