colored output

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Re: colored output by borisz (Canon) on Jan 02, 2005 at 13:31 UTC
Term::ANSIColor does that. Boris	[reply]
Re^2: colored output by florg (Friar) on Jan 02, 2005 at 13:51 UTC
Adding to that, there are some nice examples of Term::ANSIColor in the 2004 Advent Calendar: 2nd.	[reply]
Re^2: colored output by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 02, 2005 at 21:24 UTC
In Windows, you'll need to load up Win32::Console::ANSI in addition to Term::ANSIColor, since Windows doesn't naturally interpret ANSI console escape sequences. I'd add `use if $^O eq 'MSWin32', 'Win32::Console::ANSI';` if I wanted portability.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: colored output by belden (Friar) on Jan 03, 2005 at 23:59 UTC
That assumes perl 5.6.2 or higher. A more portable solution might be: `# check whether if.pm is available eval { use if 1, 'if' } ; my $has_if = defined $@ ; if ( $has_if ) { use if $^0 eq 'MSWin32', 'Win32::Console::ANSI' ; } elsif ( $^O eq 'MSWin32' ) { eval { use Win32::Console::ANSI } ; die "$@, stopped" if $@ ; }` [download] </facetiousness>	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: colored output by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 04, 2005 at 04:59 UTC
Re^3: colored output by JamesNC (Chaplain) on Jan 05, 2005 at 04:07 UTC
I would only add ( from Win32::Console::ANSI perldoc ) `Windows NT/2000/XP does not support ANSI escape sequences in Win32 Con +sole applications. This module emulates an ANSI console for the script which uses it.` [download] Update: This indeed does work under Win2K and AS 5.8 Perl and gellyfish proved it to me. I had previously used PPM to download this and then ran the example with NO luck. gellyfish sent me a screenshot proving otherwise, so I downloaded and built this module which worked as advertised! I will be very careful about just assuming that any module installed via PPM is guaranteed to work.	[reply] [d/l]