There's a simple trick to printing on the same line: Don't print newlines, print carriage returns instead. That will return it to the beginning of the line, instead of moving to the next line,...
It's possible, sure:printf("%20s %20s %20s", "a", "b", "c"); ...but it's pretty fiddly having to get all the lines the same length all the time when handling raw text, and seems a lot of work for no...