Hi there :-)

I've just used Term::ANSIColor in an app for the first time, and found it really awesome. I didn't have to change anything at all in my code: I just declared the colors on some variables. 

my $name = colored('Jon', 'red');

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and almost all the rest worked as if nothing had been changed, but now my terminal outputs are much more readable.

My problem starts when some commands do string comparison: 

    do_something() if $name eq 'Jon';

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This breaks because $name is not just Jon now, it's red Jon.

One workaraound is to use colorstrip(): 

    do_something() if colorstrip($name) eq 'Jon';

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That works, but it means I have to make this change everywhere in the code, which is a pain. Especially when these variables get sent to various objects who do all the hard work.

Is there any way to make this work? Some way of saying: "You're being compared? Wait, I'll colorstrip you first".

If that was included in the Term::ANSIColor module, that would be even better. That's why I just wrote to the module author, to come and read this message.

Any idea how to take advantage of Perl's flexibility and perform this trick?

In reply to Term::ANSIColor is awesome, but.. (need help) by mascip

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