in reply to Escape characters with FORMAT?

Put the escapes into your format
format OUT = ^[@<<<< ^[@<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< ^[@<<<<<<< +@<<<< $Status, $element, $ms, $count . $Status="[32m$Status"; ...

where ^[ is a literal chr(33).

update: corrected format declaration

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}