display progress in cmd without new lines

Question

I have a java application which run on cmd. I want to show progress while running this process. In this application 50 branches processing and I want to show after processed one branch 2% completed and after another branch processed 4% completed and so on. Problem is when I used

System.out.print("PROGRESS :" + branch_Vec.get(value).toString()+" : "+ df2.format(((a / total) * 100)) +" % \r");

as a out put it goes to new line each time it calls.

I want to show progress in same line.For example:

progress : AB : 2%

Answer 1

The code System.out.print("\rComplete: "+percentage); should just work.

The \r is a carriage return, and will clear the current line. As long as you don't write a newline \n you can update the text.

Note that this does not work in the console in Eclipse, if you're using that to test.