On 2017-10-25, Rob Morley  wrote:

> On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 01:19:10 +0000 (UTC)
> neverland@GOODEVEca.net (Pete) wrote:
>
>> There's one point that wasn't noted in all the above...
>> You need to aake sure the line being printed always has the same
>> length (as was in fact the case in the example).  Otherwise you'll
>> get garbage left on the right.  Simple solution -- add enough
>> trailing spaces to cover all cases...
>
> Actually it was mentioned:
>
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 22:09:54 -0400
> rickman  wrote:
>
>> When updating a value you are displaying, don't forget to consider
>> formatting of the result.  If your numbers change from 3 digits to 2
>> digits for example, the last digit of the previous value won't be
>> overwritten unless you use a fixed width format with spaces in front
>> for shorter numbers.

Perhaps, but the "trailing spaces" solution is more general-purpose.

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