You can use SetConsoleCursorPosition(). Check out the following sample program. It reads an integer in loop and prints the time in the right hand corner of console. Just a demonstration of Visual C++’s gotoxy().

#include "iostream"
#include "time.h"
#include "windows.h"

using namespace std;

// Set current cursor position.
void GotoXY( HANDLE StdOut, SHORT x, SHORT y )
{
    // Set the cursor position.
    COORD Cord;
    Cord.X = x;
    Cord.Y = y;
    SetConsoleCursorPosition( StdOut, Cord );
}

// Print time at the upper right corner of console.
void PrintTime()
{
    // Get handle to console output buffer.
    HANDLE hStdout = GetStdHandle( STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE );

    // Get current screen information.
    CONSOLE_SCREEN_BUFFER_INFO ScreenBufferInfo = { 0 };
    GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo( hStdout, &ScreenBufferInfo );

    // Set the cursor position to upper-right of console.
    GotoXY( hStdout, 50, 0 );

    // Get time and display it.
    time_t tim=time(NULL);
    char *s=ctime(&tim);
    cout << s;

    // Reset cursor back to position.
    GotoXY( hStdout,
            ScreenBufferInfo.dwCursorPosition.X,
            ScreenBufferInfo.dwCursorPosition.Y );
}

void main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    // Just to provide enough space.
    cout << endl << endl;

    while( true )
    {
        // Print the time.
        PrintTime();

        // Read a value.
        int a;
        cout << "Enter number: ";
        cin >> a;
    }
}

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