Real ANSI colour codes look like ESC[<number>m where ESC is the character 27, and can be matched using \e in a perl regular expression. The number denotes the colour, possible codes are:
// common defines

#define NORMAL          "\e[0m"
#define BOLD            "\e[1m"
#define UNDERSCORE      "\e[4m"
#define BLINK           "\e[5m"
#define INVERSE         "\e[7m"

// foreground colours

#define ANSI_BLACK        "\e[30m"
#define ANSI_RED          "\e[31m"
#define ANSI_GREEN        "\e[32m"
#define ANSI_YELLOW       "\e[33m"
#define ANSI_BLUE         "\e[34m"
#define ANSI_PURPLE       "\e[35m"
#define ANSI_CYAN         "\e[36m"
#define ANSI_WHITE        "\e[37m"

// background colours

#define ANSI_BACK_BLACK  "\e[40m"
#define ANSI_BACK_RED    "\e[41m"
#define ANSI_BACK_GREEN  "\e[42m"
#define ANSI_BACK_YELLOW "\e[43m"
#define ANSI_BACK_BLUE   "\e[44m"
#define ANSI_BACK_PURPLE "\e[45m"
#define ANSI_BACK_CYAN   "\e[46m"
#define ANSI_BACK_WHITE  "\e[47m"

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(Yup, I grabbed that from a mud)
So to match ANSI colours you need:
$line =~ s/\e\[\d+m//g;

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To see the colour codes, at least in unix/linux, just show the file with 'less'. That makes them show up as ESC[1mESC[31m here.

If that doesn't help, you'll need to show an example somehow.

C.

In reply to Re: Removing ANSI Color Codes by castaway
in thread Removing ANSI Color Codes by narse

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