How to clear the console in Lua

Question

I am making my first Lua program with a console, and I need to figure out how to remove all the text in the console without adding a ton \ n.

Answer 1

You can use os.execute() .

On Windows:

 os.execute("cls") 

On Unix:

 os.execute("clear") 

Answer 2

If your console understands the ANSI terminal escape sequences, try io.write("\027[H\027[2J") .

Answer 3

As mentioned in another answer, you can use os.execute () to clear the console. However, if you do not have access to this function, you may be forced to spam the console with new lines, so the user may look "empty".

However, if you can use os.execute, you should definitely use it.

 for i = 1, 255 do print() end 

Answer 4

Sorry for the late reply, but if anyone checks out this post here, this can be done:

 if not os.execute("clear") then os.execute("cls") elseif not os.execute("cls") then for i = 1,25 do print("\n\n") end end 

This will work with any os.