changing output look

EchoAngel has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks, I got some data that I outputed to screen and it is in a certain order. Is there a way to highlight/bold the output? ie like changing font? Meaning change the data that goes to STDOUT. any such feature in perl?

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Re: changing output look by Velaki (Chaplain) on Sep 17, 2004 at 23:10 UTC
Sure! You can use Term::ANSIColor, which will allow you to output text in bold, color, what-have-you, for a terminal that supports those features. Here's a nifty example: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants); print BOLD,BLUE,"This",RESET," is bold and blue.\n",RESET; print "But ",RED,"this",RESET," is simply red.\n",RESET;` [download] Hope that helped, -v "Perl. There is no substitute."	[reply] [d/l]
Re: changing output look by cfreak (Chaplain) on Sep 18, 2004 at 19:07 UTC
It would help if you told us what kind of output? Output on a webpage? Console? TK App? Perl certainly has lots of features for changing display options, but we need to know what exactly it is you're doing first Lobster Aliens Are attacking the world!	[reply]