in reply to bolding words within format

If you're living in an ANSI Terminal (like xterm) you could use ansi escape sequences: 
print "The following text will be";
print "\033[1m"; # bold on
print " bold ";
print "\033[m";  # bold off
print "\n";

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You may find a bash prompt howto on your system where many such sequences are described: On my system it's called Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.

Regards... Stefan
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Re: Re: bolding words within format
by suaveant (Parson) on Sep 04, 2001 at 19:28 UTC
    The only problem with ansi escape chars is that many things read them as normal chars, but since they are non-printing they throw some things off, since it sees the string as longer than it actually prints... I'm not sure if format knows better or not, but I doubt it... just something good to know.

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