Is there an easy way to use Term::ANSIColor and printf together?

I want to output a formatted response to the terminal.

 printf works fine for this project but the text is monochrome. I would like to be able to highlight some of the text within a line of formatted output

This works but is not elegant:

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict; 
use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants); 
{ local $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET = 1; 
 print BOLD "Dog record\n"; 
 my $nlabel = BLACK ."Name\:"; 
 my $dogname = RED ."Silkenswift Blaze of Chaos"; 
 my $pt = RED "DC ";
 my $ft = RED "LCM2 SORC GRC ";
 my $ot = RED "CD "; 

printf("%-14s %-41s %-20s \n","$nlabel $pt","$dogname","$ft $ot"); 
print BLACK ""; print BOLD "################################\n"; 
}

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This is just an example. In the actual program variables are being used in the black text areas such as :

$thisdog{'name'}

In reply to Term::ANSIColor and printf - easy way to use them together by bdalzell

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