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How to get the current position of cursor from output screen in C?

The given task is to get the current position of the cursor from the output screen in C.

Approach: There is a predefined function wherex() in C language that returns the x coordinate of the cursor in the current output screen. And wherey() function that returns the y coordinate of the cursor in current output screen. Both the functions are defined in conio.h headerfile.

Note: This code is according to turbo C.

Example 1:




// C program to get the current
// cursor position from output screen
  
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdio.h>
  
void main()
{
    clrscr();
  
    // print current location of x.
    printf("current location of x is:%d\n", wherex());
  
    // print the current location of y.
    print("currentlocation of y is:%d", wherey());
  
    getch();
}

Output:

Example 2:




// C program to get the current
// cursor position from output screen
  
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdio.h>
  
void main()
{
    clrscr();
  
    // takes the cursor to given coordinates
    // here at (10, 15).
    gotoxy(10, 15);
  
    // print current location of x.
    printf("current location of x is:%d\n", wherex());
  
    // print the current location of y.
    print("currentlocation of y is:%d", wherey());
  
    getch();
}

Output:

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