Clear Screen Command in C++

Question

I want to clear the screen after user enters some numbers in C++. I'm programming in console application mode.

so how to do it? My OS is win7 and My IDE is CodeBlocks and the Compiler is MingW...

Answer 1

It depends of your OS, If you use linux:

system("clear");

If you use windows:

system("cls"); 

but this make your application lees portable, it's preferable to do

cout << string(50, '\n');

this line will print lines to seem like the terminal was 'cleared'.

A good article about that problem: http://www.cplusplus.com/articles/4z18T05o/

Answer 2

You can use the clrscr() defined in conio.h.

Ways to clear screen the output screen.