in reply to Color highlighted perl grep

This looks fun, though didn’t try it. I use App::Ack. It colors output. Not sure how/if it could fit into your applet. (Note you have a bad shebang on your second code block.)

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Re^2: Color highlighted perl grep
by Discipulus (Canon) on Feb 23, 2015 at 20:08 UTC
    thanks Your Mother for the ack suggestion: it seems a sweety.
    FreeBeerReekingMonk++ for esording with a cool use for Perl; you'll be sure delighted by the amount of cool things Perl can do.

    Consider a view of "em" - Emphasize text using regular expressions as instructive tour of a different approach to the matter.
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      Thank you very much for the em suggestion. using that now for structuring colored output. :)
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