> By the way, I am posting my output by copying/pasting from terminal window. Is that the wrong way to do it?

no thats what I'm doing, and it works on my linux box. but now it's evident that Term::ANSIColor tries to translate tabs to blanks.

lanx@nc10-ubuntu:~$ perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Term::ANSIColor;
 
my @systems=qw(SERVER1 SERVER2 SERVER3);
foreach my $system (@systems) {
    print "Now powering on $system:";
    print color 'bold red';
    print " \t\t[DONE]\n";
    print color 'reset';
}
__END__
Now powering on SERVER1:         [DONE]
Now powering on SERVER2:         [DONE]
Now powering on SERVER3:         [DONE]
                         ^blanks^

[download]

Seems like in your environment the translation is broken.

Your solution works now, because you transfered the tabs out of colored().

Anyway this only works reliably as long as your "server" names all have the same length. Do you really have less than 10? ;-)

Cheers Rolf

In reply to Re^3: Question about oddities when printing a tab by LanX
in thread Question about oddities when printing a tab by walkingthecow

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.