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I put it to clear a certain part of the lcd where the millisecond counter is. It never cleared. When i replaced the lcd.print(""); with lcd.print("."); it displayed an period where I wanted the nothing.
This stems from the fact that the LCD controller itself does not inherently support the function and in fact treats the ASCII codes for and as displayable characters instead of control codes.
In my opinion the basic LiquidCrystal library should concentrate on implementing all of the capabilities of the LCD controller and no more. If people want a library that more closely emulates a CRT (or LCD) terminal that is fine, but I think it should be done in a different library.
For those that would like to do backlight control, you can use my hd44780 LCD library package (available in the IDE library manager) that supports backlight control and will auto detect this issue and work around the issue in s/w for shields that have the issue.
This 16x2 LCD Keypad shield is developed for Arduino compatible boards and also can be used with Raspberry Pi. The shield includes a 16x2 HD44780 LCD module and a 5 push button keypad for menu selection and user interface programming.
If you don"t want/need backlight control and are ok with having the backlight on all the time, cutting the D10 header pin from the lcd/keypad shield might be the easiest solution.
Explanation: the glass of the lcd lays on the top and the bottom on a kind of "rubber" in which electrical lines are integrated to lead the signals from trhe pcb to the contacts of the lcd glass.
Now there are some LCD displays available which operate from a 3.3V supply. This is interesting - they do this by incorporating a "charge pump" IC on the display module - you will notice the SOP "footprint" for this option labelled "U3" on the back of your LCD module and a soldered jumper "J1" which bypasses the charge pump (so if you have a 3.3V module, you could switch it to 5V and back if you wanted to). This charge pump boosts the internal supply voltage to 5V while the HD44780 happily accepts the 3.3V logic inputs. You still adjust the Vo to about 0.45V as before, though with the potentiometer now connected across 3.3V rather then 5, its position will be somewhat different.