Clearing the Screen

[Snhr]

So, I was wondering about how I would go about clearing the screen in the terminal. I've read that using system("cls") isn't the best way of doing it, so is there a better way than using a system command?

[anzki4]

To my knowledge there is not one, but you can just use:

cout << "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n";

EDIT: Although I am not sure if there is enough to move to next screen, but you get the idea...

[Null]

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/10515/

[Disch]

FWIW, console programs probably should not clear the screen anyway.

[Snhr]

that \n repetition seems a bit overkill, all of those options seem like way more work than just using system("cls") too.

Is there anything wrong with using a system command other than the command is OS specific, because I was just wanting to clear the screen for a assignment I'm doing for my programming class and I thought that there would be an easy way to do it without spamming \n or writing a whole function. That really helps though Null, I'll have to remember that article if I ever need to clear the screen for programs I do outside of class.

[Bazzy]

Is there anything wrong with using a system command other than the command is OS specific

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/articles/11153/

[Chris99460]

Be careful with security.

[kaduuk]

as Disch said, you probably shouldnt want to clear the screen anyway, so why not use \n ;)
and there probably is a non OS specific, but that would be much more work then \n or the os
specific way..