How to move the caret a few lines back, and delete everything in front?

Question

Programming

There's \r , which moves the carriage return to the beginning of the line, and I need something to make the carriage return a few lines back and remove everything in front.

Answer 1

There is no universal solution. Windows has its own API for working with the console in terminal emulators, there are standards for using ECMA-48 control characters. In any case, it all comes down to padding printed characters with spaces.