The thing is, I need to translate stuff that will have ansi colors in it, that I will be recieving, and then display them in a curses style. I know how to do the curses color, i've worked with the curses library in C already. I just dont quite know how to parse a string like "this is a \033[34m string\033[0m" into something that i'll be able to print using my curses functions. ... if that makes sense, but thanks for your help.