Re: ascii colors from text file

Those are ANSI escape sequences. You need an ANSI terminal to see them.

...or an emulation. On Windows, adding use Win32::Console::ANSI; to your script will add ANSI support to your console.

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Re^2: ascii colors from text file by Anonymous Monk on Mar 02, 2007 at 17:45 UTC
I know they are. My terminal has support. If i just drop the escape into a printer statement it works fine. I suspect that they escape is being lost as its read in from the text file and i remove the first slash.	[reply]
Re^3: ascii colors from text file by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 02, 2007 at 17:53 UTC
Sorry, I misread. In a double quoted string literal, `\033` is replaced with character 33 oct (27 dec, 1B hex) in the resulting string. The following two statememts are equivalent. `$str = "\033"; # ESC $str = chr(033); # ESC` [download] You'll have to do this conversion somehow. `while (<DATA>) { s/\\\\033/\033/g; # \\033 -> ESC print; } __DATA__ \\033[0;30mcolor1 \\033[0;31mcolor2` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]