How to update part of string?

[bubnenkoff]

For example I am printing:
xxx
and then I need print:
yy

But xxx is 3 symbols, and if I will overwrite 2 I will get:
yyx

is there any way to prevent it?

[adamdruppe]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 03:48:09AM -0700, Dmitry Bubnenkov wrote:

But xxx is 3 symbols, and if I will overwrite 2 I will get:
yyx

is there any way to prevent it?

print "yy "

with the extra space at the end you will explicitly erase the third char.

[vladdeSV]

Pardon previous message, for some reason thought this was my repo.

Apologies.

[adamdruppe]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 04:31:57AM -0700, Vladde Nordholm wrote:

Pardon previous message, for some reason thought this was my repo.

err it is!