if you know C programming language I need a little help. My first assignment was to code "Hello World" and modify it to use for the first assignment. It compiled and ran fine but the text runs right into the "press any key to continue" script in DOS when that script should be below it. Visually its annoying.

You need a line return (think "enter" in a typical text interface).

In C, it's done with a "\n ", I believe.

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yep that did the trick

thanks!

You can handle it in DOS by inserting the word "echo" above the pause statement, that will give you a new line.

You should post your code if you want help, given the information you gave, I am guessing you are missing a carriage return/line feed escape code at the end of your output statement. That will depend on the paltform:

On Unix, an ASCII newline (\n) LF (linefeed) character ends each line.

On Windows, an ASCII sequence CR LF (\r\n) (return followed by linefeed) ends each line.

On Macintosh, an ASCII CR (\r) (carriage return) character ends each line.

thanks!

but Nate hit it on the head and it worked out for me

You're not really wasting time on the old C, are you ? C# is where it is at, junk that $hit.

Hate to be a nit picker [I'm no longer on the ANSI C++ Committee], but the \r line separator was only for ancient Macs [System 7 and older], later Macs adopted the UNIX \n convention [but tolerate \r so they can read old files]

In current C standard output libraries [ #include ], you usually just specify a newline '\n' and the appropriate sequence is automagicly written to the output.

I will record that somewhere in my diary.

Sorry, I'm an old guy. Need any help with fortran77?

Join the club, Fortran, Fortran IV, COBOL (not II, I know current but started on COBOL).

How about AutoCoder geesh dating myself.

Pick a language I've used it some.

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Haha, good deal

I don't actually use C, I just use Matlab all the time and the fprintf and similar commands have all the same syntax

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its C then C++... gotta get the basics first

gcc, perl, java and am a little rusty with PASCAL

fu pascal

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