Dear Monks,

The following example code works as expected on Linux:

use Term::ANSIColor;
use Term::ReadLine;
my $term = new Term::ReadLine 'Simple Perl calc';
my $prompt = "Enter your arithmetic expression: ";
my $OUT = $term->OUT || STDOUT;
while ( defined ($_ = $term->readline($prompt)) ) {
    $res = eval($_);
    warn $@ if $@;
    print $OUT color('green');
    print $OUT $res, "\n" unless $@;
    print $OUT color('reset');
    $term->addhistory($_) if /\S/;
}

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However, on Windows (win7 to be precise) instead of a green coloured $res I get the ANSI escape characters, e.g. <-[32m4<-[0m

The strange thing is that otherwise ANSIColor works on Windows if you print directly to the console.

Peace.

In reply to Term::ReadLine and Term::ANSIColor don't play well on Windows by kubrat

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