Re: Escape codes

[Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org>]

J.Matthews wrote:
 > Can anyone explain why this doesn't work. I am fairly new to ADA and
 > would appreciate the help!
 >
 > with ada.text_io; use ada.text_io;
 >
 > procedure ClearScreen is
 >
 > begin
 >
 >   Put (Item => ASCII.ESC);
 >   Put (Item => "[2J");
 >
 > end ClearScreen;
 >
 > It's meant to clear the screen but all it does is display a small
 > left arrow then [2J

This has nothing to do with Ada. Your display does not recognize ANSI 
escape sequences.

Note that you can write this as

Put (Ascii.Esc & "[2J");

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