Detecting the '\\033' sequence and replacing it with a real Esc seems to work. I store the colours in a hash table for easy access.

use strict;
use warnings;

my %colours =
   map {
           $_->[0] => map {
                              my $str = $_;
                              $str =~ s{\\\\(\d{3})}{chr(oct $1)}e;
                              $str
                          } $_->[1]
       }
   map { chomp; [ split m{=} ] }
   <DATA>;

print qq{Black then$colours{color2} red then$colours{color1} black.\n}
+;

__END__
color1=\\033[0;30m
color2=\\033[0;31m

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I hope this is of use.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re: ascii colors from text file by johngg
in thread ascii colors from text file by Anonymous Monk

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