I have some very long strings that I want to print to the screen and read through individually. In order to make it easier to read, I want to highlight (e.g., underline, bold, color, etc.) a few keywords.

Is there an easy way to do this without splitting up each string around every keyword and inserting formatting commands?

I think I can do a global replace of my keywords with the formatted keyword like so:

$mystring =~ s/keyword/formatted keyword/g;
print "$mystring";
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will this work, or will the print command interpret the formatting commands as plain text?

Also, is there a simple formatting command for bold or underline?