in reply to using colors with print()

In what context - terminal, GUI, CGI, printer? On what OS? How you do it depends on these factors. Color::Output or Curses::UI::Color may be what you are looking for but who knows? We need more information to point you in the right direction.

cheers

tachyon

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Re^2: using colors with print()
by drwxrwxrwx (Novice) on Jun 19, 2004 at 12:25 UTC
    ok i apologize i'm using print() on a terminal (linux)
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      Term::ANSIColor will do what you want in the easiest possible way. The docs and source explain how printing ANSI escape sequences causes your terminal to do (color) stuff 
      $cat color.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
print BOLD, BLUE, "This text is in bold blue.\n", RESET;
print RED, "This text is red.\n", RESET;

$ ./color.pl
This text is in bold blue.
This text is red.
$

      To set the AUTORESET feature so you can loose the RESET tokens set $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET = 1 just after the use. RTFS to see the available constants. Don't use BLINK :o)

      cheers

      tachyon

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