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e3e5e1ea 1# Term::ANSIColor -- Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences.
f63addff 2# $Id: ANSIColor.pm,v 1.3 2000/08/06 18:28:10 eagle Exp $
e3e5e1ea 3#
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4# Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000
5# by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> and Zenin <zenin@best.com>
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6#
7# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
8# under the same terms as Perl itself.
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9#
10# Ah, September, when the sysadmins turn colors and fall off the trees....
11# -- Dave Van Domelen
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12
13############################################################################
14# Modules and declarations
15############################################################################
16
17package Term::ANSIColor;
18require 5.001;
19
20use strict;
21use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT %EXPORT_TAGS $VERSION $AUTOLOAD %attributes
22 $AUTORESET $EACHLINE);
23
24use Exporter ();
25@ISA = qw(Exporter);
26@EXPORT = qw(color colored);
27%EXPORT_TAGS = (constants => [qw(CLEAR RESET BOLD UNDERLINE UNDERSCORE BLINK
28 REVERSE CONCEALED BLACK RED GREEN YELLOW
29 BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE ON_BLACK ON_RED
30 ON_GREEN ON_YELLOW ON_BLUE ON_MAGENTA
31 ON_CYAN ON_WHITE)]);
32Exporter::export_ok_tags ('constants');
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33
34# Don't use the CVS revision as the version, since this module is also in
35# Perl core and too many things could munge CVS magic revision strings.
36$VERSION = 1.03;
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37
38
39############################################################################
40# Internal data structures
41############################################################################
42
43%attributes = ('clear' => 0,
44 'reset' => 0,
45 'bold' => 1,
f63addff 46 'dark' => 2,
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47 'underline' => 4,
48 'underscore' => 4,
49 'blink' => 5,
50 'reverse' => 7,
51 'concealed' => 8,
52
53 'black' => 30, 'on_black' => 40,
54 'red' => 31, 'on_red' => 41,
55 'green' => 32, 'on_green' => 42,
56 'yellow' => 33, 'on_yellow' => 43,
57 'blue' => 34, 'on_blue' => 44,
58 'magenta' => 35, 'on_magenta' => 45,
59 'cyan' => 36, 'on_cyan' => 46,
60 'white' => 37, 'on_white' => 47);
61
62
63############################################################################
64# Implementation (constant form)
65############################################################################
66
67# Time to have fun! We now want to define the constant subs, which are
68# named the same as the attributes above but in all caps. Each constant sub
69# needs to act differently depending on whether $AUTORESET is set. Without
70# autoreset:
71#
72# BLUE "text\n" ==> "\e[34mtext\n"
73#
74# If $AUTORESET is set, we should instead get:
75#
76# BLUE "text\n" ==> "\e[34mtext\n\e[0m"
77#
78# The sub also needs to handle the case where it has no arguments correctly.
79# Maintaining all of this as separate subs would be a major nightmare, as
80# well as duplicate the %attributes hash, so instead we define an AUTOLOAD
81# sub to define the constant subs on demand. To do that, we check the name
82# of the called sub against the list of attributes, and if it's an all-caps
83# version of one of them, we define the sub on the fly and then run it.
84sub AUTOLOAD {
85 my $sub;
86 ($sub = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/^.*:://;
87 my $attr = $attributes{lc $sub};
88 if ($sub =~ /^[A-Z_]+$/ && defined $attr) {
89 $attr = "\e[" . $attr . 'm';
90 eval qq {
91 sub $AUTOLOAD {
92 if (\$AUTORESET && \@_) {
93 '$attr' . "\@_" . "\e[0m";
94 } else {
95 ('$attr' . "\@_");
96 }
97 }
98 };
99 goto &$AUTOLOAD;
100 } else {
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101 require Carp;
102 Carp::croak ("undefined subroutine &$AUTOLOAD called");
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103 }
104}
105
106
107############################################################################
108# Implementation (attribute string form)
109############################################################################
110
111# Return the escape code for a given set of color attributes.
112sub color {
113 my @codes = map { split } @_;
114 my $attribute = '';
115 foreach (@codes) {
116 $_ = lc $_;
117 unless (defined $attributes{$_}) {
118 require Carp;
119 Carp::croak ("Invalid attribute name $_");
120 }
121 $attribute .= $attributes{$_} . ';';
122 }
123 chop $attribute;
124 ($attribute ne '') ? "\e[${attribute}m" : undef;
125}
126
127# Given a string and a set of attributes, returns the string surrounded by
128# escape codes to set those attributes and then clear them at the end of the
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129# string. The attributes can be given either as an array ref as the first
130# argument or as a list as the second and subsequent arguments. If
131# $EACHLINE is set, insert a reset before each occurrence of the string
132# $EACHLINE and the starting attribute code after the string $EACHLINE, so
133# that no attribute crosses line delimiters (this is often desirable if the
134# output is to be piped to a pager or some other program).
e3e5e1ea 135sub colored {
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136 my ($string, @codes);
137 if (ref $_[0]) {
138 @codes = @{+shift};
139 $string = join ('', @_);
140 } else {
141 $string = shift;
142 @codes = @_;
143 }
e3e5e1ea 144 if (defined $EACHLINE) {
f63addff 145 my $attr = color (@codes);
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146 join '',
147 map { $_ && $_ ne $EACHLINE ? $attr . $_ . "\e[0m" : $_ }
148 split (/(\Q$EACHLINE\E)/, $string);
149 } else {
f63addff 150 color (@codes) . $string . "\e[0m";
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151 }
152}
153
154
155############################################################################
156# Module return value and documentation
157############################################################################
158
159# Ensure we evaluate to true.
1601;
161__END__
162
163=head1 NAME
164
165Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
166
167=head1 SYNOPSIS
168
169 use Term::ANSIColor;
170 print color 'bold blue';
171 print "This text is bold blue.\n";
172 print color 'reset';
173 print "This text is normal.\n";
174 print colored ("Yellow on magenta.\n", 'yellow on_magenta');
175 print "This text is normal.\n";
f63addff 176 print colored ['yellow on_magenta'], "Yellow on magenta.\n";
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177
178 use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
179 print BOLD, BLUE, "This text is in bold blue.\n", RESET;
180
181 use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
182 $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET = 1;
183 print BOLD BLUE "This text is in bold blue.\n";
184 print "This text is normal.\n";
185
186=head1 DESCRIPTION
187
188This module has two interfaces, one through color() and colored() and the
189other through constants.
bbc7dcd2 190
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191color() takes any number of strings as arguments and considers them to be
192space-separated lists of attributes. It then forms and returns the escape
193sequence to set those attributes. It doesn't print it out, just returns
194it, so you'll have to print it yourself if you want to (this is so that
195you can save it as a string, pass it to something else, send it to a file
196handle, or do anything else with it that you might care to).
197
198The recognized attributes (all of which should be fairly intuitive) are
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199clear, reset, dark, bold, underline, underscore, blink, reverse,
200concealed, black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, on_black, on_red,
201on_green, on_yellow, on_blue, on_magenta, on_cyan, and on_white. Case is
202not significant. Underline and underscore are equivalent, as are clear
203and reset, so use whichever is the most intuitive to you. The color alone
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204sets the foreground color, and on_color sets the background color.
205
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206Note that not all attributes are supported by all terminal types, and some
207terminals may not support any of these sequences. Dark, blink, and
208concealed in particular are frequently not implemented.
209
210Attributes, once set, last until they are unset (by sending the attribute
211"reset"). Be careful to do this, or otherwise your attribute will last
212after your script is done running, and people get very annoyed at having
213their prompt and typing changed to weird colors.
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214
215As an aid to help with this, colored() takes a scalar as the first
216argument and any number of attribute strings as the second argument and
217returns the scalar wrapped in escape codes so that the attributes will be
218set as requested before the string and reset to normal after the string.
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219Alternately, you can pass a reference to an array as the first argument,
220and then the contents of that array will be taken as attributes and color
221codes and the remainder of the arguments as text to colorize.
222
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223Normally, colored() just puts attribute codes at the beginning and end of
224the string, but if you set $Term::ANSIColor::EACHLINE to some string,
225that string will be considered the line delimiter and the attribute will
226be set at the beginning of each line of the passed string and reset at the
227end of each line. This is often desirable if the output is being sent to
228a program like a pager that can be confused by attributes that span lines.
229Normally you'll want to set $Term::ANSIColor::EACHLINE to C<"\n"> to use
230this feature.
231
232Alternately, if you import C<:constants>, you can use the constants CLEAR,
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233RESET, BOLD, DARK, UNDERLINE, UNDERSCORE, BLINK, REVERSE, CONCEALED,
234BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, ON_BLACK, ON_RED, ON_GREEN,
235ON_YELLOW, ON_BLUE, ON_MAGENTA, ON_CYAN, and ON_WHITE directly. These are
236the same as color('attribute') and can be used if you prefer typing:
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237
238 print BOLD BLUE ON_WHITE "Text\n", RESET;
239
240to
241
242 print colored ("Text\n", 'bold blue on_white');
243
244When using the constants, if you don't want to have to remember to add the
245C<, RESET> at the end of each print line, you can set
246$Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET to a true value. Then, the display mode will
247automatically be reset if there is no comma after the constant. In other
248words, with that variable set:
249
250 print BOLD BLUE "Text\n";
251
252will reset the display mode afterwards, whereas:
253
254 print BOLD, BLUE, "Text\n";
255
256will not.
257
258The subroutine interface has the advantage over the constants interface in
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259that only two subroutines are exported into your namespace, versus
260twenty-two in the constants interface. On the flip side, the constants
261interface has the advantage of better compile time error checking, since
262misspelled names of colors or attributes in calls to color() and colored()
263won't be caught until runtime whereas misspelled names of constants will
264be caught at compile time. So, polute your namespace with almost two
265dozen subroutines that you may not even use that often, or risk a silly
266bug by mistyping an attribute. Your choice, TMTOWTDI after all.
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267
268=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
269
270=over 4
271
272=item Invalid attribute name %s
273
f63addff 274(F) You passed an invalid attribute name to either color() or colored().
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f63addff 276=item Name "%s" used only once: possible typo
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f63addff 278(W) You probably mistyped a constant color name such as:
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279
280 print FOOBAR "This text is color FOOBAR\n";
281
282It's probably better to always use commas after constant names in order to
283force the next error.
284
285=item No comma allowed after filehandle
286
f63addff 287(F) You probably mistyped a constant color name such as:
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288
289 print FOOBAR, "This text is color FOOBAR\n";
290
291Generating this fatal compile error is one of the main advantages of using
292the constants interface, since you'll immediately know if you mistype a
293color name.
294
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e3e5e1ea 296
f63addff 297(F) You probably mistyped a constant color name such as:
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298
299 $Foobar = FOOBAR . "This line should be blue\n";
300
301or:
302
303 @Foobar = FOOBAR, "This line should be blue\n";
304
305This will only show up under use strict (another good reason to run under
306use strict).
307
308=back
309
310=head1 RESTRICTIONS
311
312It would be nice if one could leave off the commas around the constants
313entirely and just say:
314
315 print BOLD BLUE ON_WHITE "Text\n" RESET;
316
317but the syntax of Perl doesn't allow this. You need a comma after the
318string. (Of course, you may consider it a bug that commas between all the
319constants aren't required, in which case you may feel free to insert
320commas unless you're using $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET.)
321
322For easier debuging, you may prefer to always use the commas when not
323setting $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET so that you'll get a fatal compile
324error rather than a warning.
325
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326=head1 NOTES
327
328Jean Delvare provided the following table of different common terminal
329emulators and their support for the various attributes:
330
331 clear bold dark under blink reverse conceal
332 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
333 xterm yes yes no yes bold yes yes
334 linux yes yes yes bold yes yes no
335 rxvt yes yes no yes bold/black yes no
336 dtterm yes yes yes yes reverse yes yes
337 teraterm yes reverse no yes rev/red yes no
338 aixterm kinda normal no yes no yes yes
339
340Where the entry is other than yes or no, that emulator interpret the given
341attribute as something else instead. Note that on an aixterm, clear
342doesn't reset colors; you have to explicitly set the colors back to what
343you want. More entries in this table are welcome.
344
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345=head1 AUTHORS
346
347Original idea (using constants) by Zenin (zenin@best.com), reimplemented
348using subs by Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu), and then combined with the
349original idea by Russ with input from Zenin.
350
351=cut