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Musti
Musti

Reputation: 520

VSCode adds random percentage

Everytime I use the terminal to print out a string or any kind of character, it automatically prints an "%" at the end of each line. This happens everytime I try to print something from C++ or php, havent tried other languages yet. I think it might be something with vscode, and have no idea how it came or how to fix it.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int test = 2;

int main()
{
    if(test < 9999){
        test = 1;
    }

    cout << test;
}

Output:

musti@my-mbp clus % g++ main.cpp -o tests && ./tests
1%

Also changing the cout from cout << test; to cout << test << endl; Removes the % from the output.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2429

Answers (1)

Hoang
Hoang

Reputation: 177

Are you using zsh? A line without endl is considered a "partial line", so zsh shows a color-inverted % then goes to the next line.

When a partial line is preserved, by default you will see an inverse+bold character at the end of the partial line: a ‘%’ for a normal user or a ‘#’ for root. If set, the shell parameter PROMPT_EOL_MARK can be used to customize how the end of partial lines are shown.

More information is available in their docs.

Upvotes: 5

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