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Determine the character displayed on the screen at column 3, row 6 and store that character in a variable. |
Determine the character displayed on the screen at column 3, row 6 and store that character in a variable. |
Revision as of 21:55, 4 October 2010
Terminal control/Positional read is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.
Determine the character displayed on the screen at column 3, row 6 and store that character in a variable.
Ada
Algol68
awk
BASIC
QBasic
Locomotive Basic
ZX Spectrum Basic
10 REM The top left corner is at position 0,0 20 REM So we subtract one from the coordinates 30 LET c$ = SCREEN$(5,2)
Batch File
COBOL
PureBasic
Rexx
The Rexx programming language does not include terminal control as part of the language. However, it might be possible to output ANSI control sequences, and there are various workarounds which are platform specific: