Printing a backspace

[ruby talk]

######code 1
print "monkey cat"
print "\x08\x08\x08"
### works remves cat

#########code 2
print "Enter password:\n"
pass = ''
while true
ca = STDIN.getc
print "\x08\x08\x08"
if ca.to_i ==10 then
break
end
pass << ca
end
pass.strip!
###### does not work

Any Help would be good. I also tried \b . I am running windows i am
using a bat file but i also tried rde it just prints the squares

 

[ruby talk]

Is there any documentation on cls? Or exmaples?
Becker

 

[nobu.nokada]

Hi,

At Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:11:24 +0900,
ruby talk wrote in [ruby-talk:117254]:

Any Help would be good. I also tried \b . I am running windows i am
using a bat file but i also tried rde it just prints the squares

If you want to hide the input by user, this may help you:

http://nokada.jin.gr.jp/ruby/io-console.tar.bz2

Usage:

require 'io/console'
p STDIN.noecho {STDIN.gets}

 

[Florian Gross]

Is there any documentation on cls? Or exmaples?
Becker

It is just a windows specific command that clears the complete console.
See "help cls".

Regards,
Florian Gross