Backspace character? Or something like that?

[Znupi]

I'm making a command-line program in php, and I have to delete some already outputted stuff. How do I do that? I tried echo "\b" and fseeking STDOUT but nothing. Is there any way to do it?

[Znupi]

Found a way:
echo chr(8);
Is this the only way?

[NogDog]

You could define a variable or constant to hold that value, then use it as needed instead of constantly calling the chr() function:

<?php
define("BS", chr(8));
echo BS.BS.BS.BS; // output 4 backspaces
?>

[Znupi]

Indeed, that should ease things up a bit. Thanks :)