can you provide a Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example to show how you use format? I am uninitiated.

print with sprintf works fine for me:

use Term::ANSIColor qw (color colored colorstrip :constants); 

my $x = sprintf '%s XYZ', "Hello ".colored("there", "green")." and bye
+.";

print $x;

print sprintf("123 %s 456 %s 789\n",
        colored("hello", "red").sprintf("abc %s xyz",
                colored("bye", "green")  
        ),
        $x
);

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Dirty hack: re-escaping refreshing the ANSI escape sequence in The purpose of the [32mts [0m script... works for me with (the naive) =~ s/\[/\033[/g;

bw, bliako

In reply to Re: Is it possible to include colored text in formatted output using write by bliako
in thread Is it possible to include colored text in formatted output using write by fireblood

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