Perl has a lot of documentation associated with it, and each module library brings more. Curses lists the functions available through it, and those functions are described in detail in other man pages.

Issue 'man curs_color' on the command line to see the curses interface to color. Everything mentioned there is available through Curses. You will never have to construct a raw ANSI escape if you don't want to.

Update: Ahh! That's different. In documents with the escape present, the regex match /\033\[(\d+)m/ will capture the color number in $1. Take care that you have a match before using it, since $1 will hang around following a previous match.

After Compline,
Zaxo

In reply to Re: Curses Colors by Zaxo
in thread Parsing ANSI color escape sequences by TyrellJ

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