How to print a character in an x,y coordinate in the console using kotlin?

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I want achieve that to make a basic game

Is there any way to print a character in console in a x,y coordinate like gotoxy function in conio library of C language?

Your best bet is to use ANSI escape codes. – Nicolas Aug 23 '20 at 17:26 — Nicolas, Aug 23 '20 at 17:26

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '20 at 21:49

Just as with C, Java provides no built-in way to do full-screen terminal output.

And, as with C, you have two main options:

You could assume that the terminal understands ANSI escape codes, and output those directly. That's quick-and-dirty; it doesn't require any dependencies, and the basics can be done fairly easily. But it's not very maintainable; anything more sophisticated gets very fiddly — and, more importantly, it's likely to fail on other terminal types.
Or you could use a library which does all the hard work. These questions ask about that, and have several answers.

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