script: writing text without newline

[Henrique Barbosa]

Diane and Mathias,

You both sugestted the same, but that doesn't work for me.

My intention is to create a kind of progress bar, so it doesn't
make sense to accumulate a line's content.

For that, I really need to write strings to the same line, one after the other.
That's what prompt does, but I need to eliminate the buffer, so that the
strings appear on the screen as soon as the are written.

Any other clue?

Henrique Barbosa

On 5/11/05, Diane Stokes <diane.stokes at noaa.gov> wrote:
> Henrique,
>
> How about storing up the values in a string, then say the string at the
> end of the inner loop.  Something like:
>
> x=1
> while (x<xmax)
>    'set x 'x
> * initialize variable xystring with "x" info
>    xystring='x'x' & '
>    y=1
>    while (y<ymax)
>      'set y 'y
> * append your "y" info to xystring
>      xystring=xystring%'y'y' '
>
>      (...) some time consuming calculation
>
>       y=y+1
>    endwhile
> * print completed xystring
>    say xystring
>    x=x+1
> endwhile
>
>    Diane
>
>
> Henrique Barbosa wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> > Anybody know how can we "say" a text without a newline?
> >
> > I have a script which loops through x and y, and I want
> > to output something for each grigpoint, however, for all y in the
> > same line. Something like:
> >
> > ga-> my_script.gs
> > x1 & y1 y2 y3 y4 ....
> > x2 & y1 y2 ...
> > ...
> >
> > The script looks like this:
> >
> > x=1
> > while (x<xmax)
> >   'set x 'x
> >   say 'x'x' & '
> >
> >   y=1
> >   while (y<ymax)
> >     'set y 'y
> >     say 'y'y' '
> >
> >     (...) some time consuming calculation
> >
> >      y=y+1
> >   endwhile
> >   x=x+1
> > endwhile
> >
> > The problem is that the command [say] always add a new line,
> > and the output ends up like:
> >
> > ga-> my_script.gs
> > x1 &
> > y1
> > y2
> > ...
> >
> > Any sugestions?
> >
> > Henrique Barbosa
> >
>