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e3e5e1ea 1# Term::ANSIColor -- Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences.
e3e5e1ea 2#
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3# Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009
4# Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> and Zenin
5# PUSH/POP support submitted 2007 by openmethods.com voice solutions
e3e5e1ea 6#
110e9fb0 7# This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
e3e5e1ea 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
e3e5e1ea 12
135dda52 13##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 14# Modules and declarations
135dda52 15##############################################################################
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16
17package Term::ANSIColor;
18require 5.001;
19
cdab9eb9 20$VERSION = '2.02';
c23d8173 21
e3e5e1ea 22use strict;
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23use vars qw($AUTOLOAD $AUTOLOCAL $AUTORESET @COLORLIST @COLORSTACK $EACHLINE
24 @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $VERSION %ATTRIBUTES
25 %ATTRIBUTES_R);
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26
27use Exporter ();
c23d8173 28BEGIN {
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29 @COLORLIST = qw(CLEAR RESET BOLD DARK FAINT UNDERLINE UNDERSCORE BLINK
30 REVERSE CONCEALED BLACK RED GREEN YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA
31 CYAN WHITE ON_BLACK ON_RED ON_GREEN ON_YELLOW ON_BLUE
32 ON_MAGENTA ON_CYAN ON_WHITE);
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33 @ISA = qw(Exporter);
34 @EXPORT = qw(color colored);
cdab9eb9 35 @EXPORT_OK = qw(uncolor colorstrip colorvalid);
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36 %EXPORT_TAGS = (constants => \@COLORLIST,
37 pushpop => [ @COLORLIST,
38 qw(PUSHCOLOR POPCOLOR LOCALCOLOR) ]);
39 Exporter::export_ok_tags ('pushpop');
40}
e3e5e1ea 41
135dda52 42##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 43# Internal data structures
135dda52 44##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 45
c23d8173 46%ATTRIBUTES = ('clear' => 0,
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47 'reset' => 0,
48 'bold' => 1,
f63addff 49 'dark' => 2,
c23d8173 50 'faint' => 2,
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51 'underline' => 4,
52 'underscore' => 4,
53 'blink' => 5,
54 'reverse' => 7,
55 'concealed' => 8,
56
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57 'black' => 30, 'on_black' => 40,
58 'red' => 31, 'on_red' => 41,
59 'green' => 32, 'on_green' => 42,
60 'yellow' => 33, 'on_yellow' => 43,
61 'blue' => 34, 'on_blue' => 44,
62 'magenta' => 35, 'on_magenta' => 45,
63 'cyan' => 36, 'on_cyan' => 46,
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64 'white' => 37, 'on_white' => 47);
65
110e9fb0 66# Reverse lookup. Alphabetically first name for a sequence is preferred.
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67for (reverse sort keys %ATTRIBUTES) {
68 $ATTRIBUTES_R{$ATTRIBUTES{$_}} = $_;
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69}
70
135dda52 71##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 72# Implementation (constant form)
135dda52 73##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 74
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75# Time to have fun! We now want to define the constant subs, which are named
76# the same as the attributes above but in all caps. Each constant sub needs
77# to act differently depending on whether $AUTORESET is set. Without
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78# autoreset:
79#
135dda52 80# BLUE "text\n" ==> "\e[34mtext\n"
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81#
82# If $AUTORESET is set, we should instead get:
83#
135dda52 84# BLUE "text\n" ==> "\e[34mtext\n\e[0m"
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85#
86# The sub also needs to handle the case where it has no arguments correctly.
135dda52 87# Maintaining all of this as separate subs would be a major nightmare, as well
c23d8173 88# as duplicate the %ATTRIBUTES hash, so instead we define an AUTOLOAD sub to
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89# define the constant subs on demand. To do that, we check the name of the
90# called sub against the list of attributes, and if it's an all-caps version
91# of one of them, we define the sub on the fly and then run it.
110e9fb0 92#
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93# If the environment variable ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED is set, just return the
94# arguments without adding any escape sequences. This is to make it easier to
95# write scripts that also work on systems without any ANSI support, like
96# Windows consoles.
e3e5e1ea 97sub AUTOLOAD {
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98 if (defined $ENV{ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED}) {
99 return join ('', @_);
100 }
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101 if ($AUTOLOAD =~ /^([\w:]*::([A-Z_]+))$/ and defined $ATTRIBUTES{lc $2}) {
102 $AUTOLOAD = $1;
103 my $attr = "\e[" . $ATTRIBUTES{lc $2} . 'm';
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104 eval qq {
105 sub $AUTOLOAD {
106 if (\$AUTORESET && \@_) {
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107 return '$attr' . join ('', \@_) . "\e[0m";
108 } elsif (\$AUTOLOCAL && \@_) {
109 return PUSHCOLOR ('$attr') . join ('', \@_) . POPCOLOR;
e3e5e1ea 110 } else {
c23d8173 111 return '$attr' . join ('', \@_);
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112 }
113 }
114 };
115 goto &$AUTOLOAD;
116 } else {
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117 require Carp;
118 Carp::croak ("undefined subroutine &$AUTOLOAD called");
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119 }
120}
121
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122# Append a new color to the top of the color stack and return the top of
123# the stack.
124sub PUSHCOLOR {
125 my ($text) = @_;
126 my ($color) = ($text =~ m/^((?:\e\[[\d;]+m)+)/);
127 if (@COLORSTACK) {
128 $color = $COLORSTACK[-1] . $color;
129 }
130 push (@COLORSTACK, $color);
131 return $text;
132}
133
134# Pop the color stack and return the new top of the stack (or reset, if
135# the stack is empty).
136sub POPCOLOR {
137 pop @COLORSTACK;
138 if (@COLORSTACK) {
139 return $COLORSTACK[-1] . join ('', @_);
140 } else {
141 return RESET (@_);
142 }
143}
144
145# Surround arguments with a push and a pop.
146sub LOCALCOLOR {
147 return PUSHCOLOR (join ('', @_)) . POPCOLOR ();
148}
149
135dda52 150##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 151# Implementation (attribute string form)
135dda52 152##############################################################################
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153
154# Return the escape code for a given set of color attributes.
155sub color {
110e9fb0 156 return '' if defined $ENV{ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED};
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157 my @codes = map { split } @_;
158 my $attribute = '';
159 foreach (@codes) {
160 $_ = lc $_;
c23d8173 161 unless (defined $ATTRIBUTES{$_}) {
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162 require Carp;
163 Carp::croak ("Invalid attribute name $_");
164 }
c23d8173 165 $attribute .= $ATTRIBUTES{$_} . ';';
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166 }
167 chop $attribute;
c23d8173 168 return ($attribute ne '') ? "\e[${attribute}m" : undef;
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169}
170
110e9fb0 171# Return a list of named color attributes for a given set of escape codes.
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172# Escape sequences can be given with or without enclosing "\e[" and "m". The
173# empty escape sequence '' or "\e[m" gives an empty list of attrs.
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174sub uncolor {
175 my (@nums, @result);
176 for (@_) {
177 my $escape = $_;
178 $escape =~ s/^\e\[//;
179 $escape =~ s/m$//;
180 unless ($escape =~ /^((?:\d+;)*\d*)$/) {
181 require Carp;
b5b25974 182 Carp::croak ("Bad escape sequence $escape");
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183 }
184 push (@nums, split (/;/, $1));
185 }
186 for (@nums) {
187 $_ += 0; # Strip leading zeroes
c23d8173 188 my $name = $ATTRIBUTES_R{$_};
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189 if (!defined $name) {
190 require Carp;
191 Carp::croak ("No name for escape sequence $_" );
192 }
193 push (@result, $name);
194 }
c23d8173 195 return @result;
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196}
197
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198# Given a string and a set of attributes, returns the string surrounded by
199# escape codes to set those attributes and then clear them at the end of the
f63addff 200# string. The attributes can be given either as an array ref as the first
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201# argument or as a list as the second and subsequent arguments. If $EACHLINE
202# is set, insert a reset before each occurrence of the string $EACHLINE and
203# the starting attribute code after the string $EACHLINE, so that no attribute
204# crosses line delimiters (this is often desirable if the output is to be
205# piped to a pager or some other program).
e3e5e1ea 206sub colored {
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207 my ($string, @codes);
208 if (ref $_[0]) {
209 @codes = @{+shift};
210 $string = join ('', @_);
211 } else {
212 $string = shift;
213 @codes = @_;
214 }
110e9fb0 215 return $string if defined $ENV{ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED};
e3e5e1ea 216 if (defined $EACHLINE) {
f63addff 217 my $attr = color (@codes);
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218 return join '',
219 map { ($_ ne $EACHLINE) ? $attr . $_ . "\e[0m" : $_ }
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220 grep { length ($_) > 0 }
221 split (/(\Q$EACHLINE\E)/, $string);
e3e5e1ea 222 } else {
c23d8173 223 return color (@codes) . $string . "\e[0m";
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224 }
225}
226
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227# Given a string, strip the ANSI color codes out of that string and return the
228# result. This removes only ANSI color codes, not movement codes and other
229# escape sequences.
230sub colorstrip {
231 my (@string) = @_;
232 for my $string (@string) {
233 $string =~ s/\e\[[\d;]*m//g;
234 }
235 return wantarray ? @string : join ('', @string);
236}
237
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238# Given a list of color attributes (arguments for color, for instance), return
239# true if they're all valid or false if any of them are invalid.
240sub colorvalid {
241 my @codes = map { split } @_;
242 for (@codes) {
243 unless (defined $ATTRIBUTES{lc $_}) {
244 return;
245 }
246 }
247 return 1;
248}
249
135dda52 250##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 251# Module return value and documentation
135dda52 252##############################################################################
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253
254# Ensure we evaluate to true.
2551;
256__END__
257
258=head1 NAME
259
260Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
261
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262=for stopwords
263cyan colorize namespace runtime TMTOWTDI cmd.exe 4nt.exe command.com NT
264ESC Delvare SSH OpenSSH aixterm ECMA-048 Fraktur overlining Zenin
265reimplemented Allbery PUSHCOLOR POPCOLOR LOCALCOLOR openmethods.com
266
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267=head1 SYNOPSIS
268
269 use Term::ANSIColor;
270 print color 'bold blue';
271 print "This text is bold blue.\n";
272 print color 'reset';
273 print "This text is normal.\n";
cd07961b 274 print colored ("Yellow on magenta.", 'yellow on_magenta'), "\n";
e3e5e1ea 275 print "This text is normal.\n";
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276 print colored ['yellow on_magenta'], 'Yellow on magenta.';
277 print "\n";
e3e5e1ea 278
110e9fb0 279 use Term::ANSIColor qw(uncolor);
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280 print uncolor ('01;31'), "\n";
281
282 use Term::ANSIColor qw(colorstrip);
283 print colorstrip '\e[1mThis is bold\e[0m', "\n";
110e9fb0 284
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285 use Term::ANSIColor qw(colorvalid);
286 my $valid = colorvalid ('blue bold', 'on_magenta');
287 print "Color string is ", $valid ? "valid\n" : "invalid\n";
288
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289 use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
290 print BOLD, BLUE, "This text is in bold blue.\n", RESET;
291
292 use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
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293 {
294 local $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET = 1;
295 print BOLD BLUE "This text is in bold blue.\n";
296 print "This text is normal.\n";
297 }
298
299 use Term::ANSIColor qw(:pushpop);
300 print PUSHCOLOR RED ON_GREEN "This text is red on green.\n";
301 print PUSHCOLOR BLUE "This text is blue on green.\n";
302 print RESET BLUE "This text is just blue.\n";
303 print POPCOLOR "Back to red on green.\n";
304 print LOCALCOLOR GREEN ON_BLUE "This text is green on blue.\n";
305 print "This text is red on green.\n";
306 {
307 local $Term::ANSIColor::AUTOLOCAL = 1;
308 print ON_BLUE "This text is red on blue.\n";
309 print "This text is red on green.\n";
310 }
311 print POPCOLOR "Back to whatever we started as.\n";
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312
313=head1 DESCRIPTION
314
315This module has two interfaces, one through color() and colored() and the
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316other through constants. It also offers the utility functions uncolor(),
317colorstrip(), and colorvalid(), which have to be explicitly imported to be
318used (see L</SYNOPSIS>).
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319
320=head2 Function Interface
bbc7dcd2 321
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322color() takes any number of strings as arguments and considers them to be
323space-separated lists of attributes. It then forms and returns the escape
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324sequence to set those attributes. It doesn't print it out, just returns
325it, so you'll have to print it yourself if you want to (this is so that
326you can save it as a string, pass it to something else, send it to a file
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327handle, or do anything else with it that you might care to). color()
328throws an exception if given an invalid attribute, so you can also use it
329to check attribute names for validity (see L</EXAMPLES>).
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330
331uncolor() performs the opposite translation, turning escape sequences
332into a list of strings.
e3e5e1ea 333
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334colorstrip() removes all color escape sequences from the provided strings,
335returning the modified strings separately in array context or joined
336together in scalar context. Its arguments are not modified.
337
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338colorvalid() takes attribute strings the same as color() and returns true
339if all attributes are known and false otherwise.
340
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341The recognized non-color attributes are clear, reset, bold, dark, faint,
342underline, underscore, blink, reverse, and concealed. Clear and reset
343(reset to default attributes), dark and faint (dim and saturated), and
344underline and underscore are equivalent, so use whichever is the most
345intuitive to you. The recognized foreground color attributes are black,
346red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, and white. The recognized
347background color attributes are on_black, on_red, on_green, on_yellow,
348on_blue, on_magenta, on_cyan, and on_white. Case is not significant.
e3e5e1ea 349
f63addff 350Note that not all attributes are supported by all terminal types, and some
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351terminals may not support any of these sequences. Dark and faint, blink,
352and concealed in particular are frequently not implemented.
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353
354Attributes, once set, last until they are unset (by sending the attribute
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355C<clear> or C<reset>). Be careful to do this, or otherwise your attribute
356will last after your script is done running, and people get very annoyed
357at having their prompt and typing changed to weird colors.
358
359As an aid to help with this, colored() takes a scalar as the first
360argument and any number of attribute strings as the second argument and
361returns the scalar wrapped in escape codes so that the attributes will be
362set as requested before the string and reset to normal after the string.
363Alternately, you can pass a reference to an array as the first argument,
364and then the contents of that array will be taken as attributes and color
365codes and the remainder of the arguments as text to colorize.
f63addff 366
e3e5e1ea 367Normally, colored() just puts attribute codes at the beginning and end of
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368the string, but if you set $Term::ANSIColor::EACHLINE to some string, that
369string will be considered the line delimiter and the attribute will be set
370at the beginning of each line of the passed string and reset at the end of
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371each line. This is often desirable if the output contains newlines and
372you're using background colors, since a background color that persists
373across a newline is often interpreted by the terminal as providing the
374default background color for the next line. Programs like pagers can also
375be confused by attributes that span lines. Normally you'll want to set
376$Term::ANSIColor::EACHLINE to C<"\n"> to use this feature.
e3e5e1ea 377
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378=head2 Constant Interface
379
e3e5e1ea 380Alternately, if you import C<:constants>, you can use the constants CLEAR,
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381RESET, BOLD, DARK, FAINT, UNDERLINE, UNDERSCORE, BLINK, REVERSE,
382CONCEALED, BLACK, RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE,
383ON_BLACK, ON_RED, ON_GREEN, ON_YELLOW, ON_BLUE, ON_MAGENTA, ON_CYAN, and
384ON_WHITE directly. These are the same as color('attribute') and can be
385used if you prefer typing:
e3e5e1ea 386
cd07961b 387 print BOLD BLUE ON_WHITE "Text", RESET, "\n";
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388
389to
390
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391 print colored ("Text", 'bold blue on_white'), "\n";
392
393(Note that the newline is kept separate to avoid confusing the terminal as
394described above since a background color is being used.)
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395
396When using the constants, if you don't want to have to remember to add the
397C<, RESET> at the end of each print line, you can set
398$Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET to a true value. Then, the display mode will
399automatically be reset if there is no comma after the constant. In other
400words, with that variable set:
401
402 print BOLD BLUE "Text\n";
403
c23d8173 404will reset the display mode afterward, whereas:
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405
406 print BOLD, BLUE, "Text\n";
407
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408will not. If you are using background colors, you will probably want to
409print the newline with a separate print statement to avoid confusing the
410terminal.
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411
412The subroutine interface has the advantage over the constants interface in
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413that only two subroutines are exported into your namespace, versus
414twenty-two in the constants interface. On the flip side, the constants
415interface has the advantage of better compile time error checking, since
416misspelled names of colors or attributes in calls to color() and colored()
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417won't be caught until runtime whereas misspelled names of constants will
418be caught at compile time. So, pollute your namespace with almost two
419dozen subroutines that you may not even use that often, or risk a silly
420bug by mistyping an attribute. Your choice, TMTOWTDI after all.
421
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422=head2 The Color Stack
423
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424As of Term::ANSIColor 2.0, you can import C<:pushpop> and maintain a stack
425of colors using PUSHCOLOR, POPCOLOR, and LOCALCOLOR. PUSHCOLOR takes the
426attribute string that starts its argument and pushes it onto a stack of
427attributes. POPCOLOR removes the top of the stack and restores the
428previous attributes set by the argument of a prior PUSHCOLOR. LOCALCOLOR
429surrounds its argument in a PUSHCOLOR and POPCOLOR so that the color
430resets afterward.
431
432When using PUSHCOLOR, POPCOLOR, and LOCALCOLOR, it's particularly
433important to not put commas between the constants.
434
435 print PUSHCOLOR BLUE "Text\n";
436
437will correctly push BLUE onto the top of the stack.
438
439 print PUSHCOLOR, BLUE, "Text\n"; # wrong!
440
441will not, and a subsequent pop won't restore the correct attributes.
442PUSHCOLOR pushes the attributes set by its argument, which is normally a
443string of color constants. It can't ask the terminal what the current
444attributes are.
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445
446=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
447
448=over 4
449
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450=item Bad escape sequence %s
451
452(F) You passed an invalid ANSI escape sequence to uncolor().
453
454=item Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use
455
456(F) You probably mistyped a constant color name such as:
457
458 $Foobar = FOOBAR . "This line should be blue\n";
459
460or:
461
462 @Foobar = FOOBAR, "This line should be blue\n";
463
464This will only show up under use strict (another good reason to run under
465use strict).
466
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467=item Invalid attribute name %s
468
f63addff 469(F) You passed an invalid attribute name to either color() or colored().
e3e5e1ea 470
f63addff 471=item Name "%s" used only once: possible typo
e3e5e1ea 472
f63addff 473(W) You probably mistyped a constant color name such as:
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474
475 print FOOBAR "This text is color FOOBAR\n";
476
477It's probably better to always use commas after constant names in order to
478force the next error.
479
480=item No comma allowed after filehandle
481
f63addff 482(F) You probably mistyped a constant color name such as:
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483
484 print FOOBAR, "This text is color FOOBAR\n";
485
486Generating this fatal compile error is one of the main advantages of using
487the constants interface, since you'll immediately know if you mistype a
488color name.
489
110e9fb0 490=item No name for escape sequence %s
e3e5e1ea 491
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492(F) The ANSI escape sequence passed to uncolor() contains escapes which
493aren't recognized and can't be translated to names.
e3e5e1ea 494
110e9fb0 495=back
e3e5e1ea 496
110e9fb0 497=head1 ENVIRONMENT
e3e5e1ea 498
110e9fb0 499=over 4
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501=item ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED
502
503If this environment variable is set, all of the functions defined by this
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504module (color(), colored(), and all of the constants not previously used
505in the program) will not output any escape sequences and instead will just
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506return the empty string or pass through the original text as appropriate.
507This is intended to support easy use of scripts using this module on
508platforms that don't support ANSI escape sequences.
509
510For it to have its proper effect, this environment variable must be set
511before any color constants are used in the program.
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512
513=back
514
515=head1 RESTRICTIONS
516
517It would be nice if one could leave off the commas around the constants
518entirely and just say:
519
520 print BOLD BLUE ON_WHITE "Text\n" RESET;
521
522but the syntax of Perl doesn't allow this. You need a comma after the
523string. (Of course, you may consider it a bug that commas between all the
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524constants aren't required, in which case you may feel free to insert
525commas unless you're using $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET or
526PUSHCOLOR/POPCOLOR.)
e3e5e1ea 527
3c4b39be 528For easier debugging, you may prefer to always use the commas when not
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529setting $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET or PUSHCOLOR/POPCOLOR so that you'll
530get a fatal compile error rather than a warning.
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532=head1 NOTES
533
110e9fb0 534The codes generated by this module are standard terminal control codes,
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535complying with ECMA-048 and ISO 6429 (generally referred to as "ANSI
536color" for the color codes). The non-color control codes (bold, dark,
537italic, underline, and reverse) are part of the earlier ANSI X3.64
538standard for control sequences for video terminals and peripherals.
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539
540Note that not all displays are ISO 6429-compliant, or even X3.64-compliant
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541(or are even attempting to be so). This module will not work as expected
542on displays that do not honor these escape sequences, such as cmd.exe,
5434nt.exe, and command.com under either Windows NT or Windows 2000. They
544may just be ignored, or they may display as an ESC character followed by
545some apparent garbage.
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f63addff 547Jean Delvare provided the following table of different common terminal
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548emulators and their support for the various attributes and others have
549helped me flesh it out:
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c23d8173 551 clear bold faint under blink reverse conceal
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cdab9eb9 553 xterm yes yes no yes yes yes yes
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554 linux yes yes yes bold yes yes no
555 rxvt yes yes no yes bold/black yes no
556 dtterm yes yes yes yes reverse yes yes
557 teraterm yes reverse no yes rev/red yes no
558 aixterm kinda normal no yes no yes yes
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559 PuTTY yes color no yes no yes no
560 Windows yes no no no no yes no
561 Cygwin SSH yes yes no color color color yes
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562 Mac Terminal yes yes no yes yes yes yes
563
564Windows is Windows telnet, Cygwin SSH is the OpenSSH implementation under
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565Cygwin on Windows NT, and Mac Terminal is the Terminal application in Mac
566OS X. Where the entry is other than yes or no, that emulator displays the
92c7d2a2 567given attribute as something else instead. Note that on an aixterm, clear
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568doesn't reset colors; you have to explicitly set the colors back to what
569you want. More entries in this table are welcome.
570
571Note that codes 3 (italic), 6 (rapid blink), and 9 (strike-through) are
572specified in ANSI X3.64 and ECMA-048 but are not commonly supported by
573most displays and emulators and therefore aren't supported by this module
574at the present time. ECMA-048 also specifies a large number of other
575attributes, including a sequence of attributes for font changes, Fraktur
576characters, double-underlining, framing, circling, and overlining. As
577none of these attributes are widely supported or useful, they also aren't
578currently supported by this module.
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580=head1 SEE ALSO
581
582ECMA-048 is available on-line (at least at the time of this writing) at
2d1e314f 583L<http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/ECMA-048.HTM>.
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585ISO 6429 is available from ISO for a charge; the author of this module
586does not own a copy of it. Since the source material for ISO 6429 was
587ECMA-048 and the latter is available for free, there seems little reason
588to obtain the ISO standard.
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590The current version of this module is always available from its web site
591at L<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/ansicolor/>. It is also part of
592the Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.
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594=head1 AUTHORS
595
110e9fb0 596Original idea (using constants) by Zenin, reimplemented using subs by Russ
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597Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, and then combined with the original idea by
598Russ with input from Zenin. Russ Allbery now maintains this module.
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135dda52 600=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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602Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 Russ
603Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> and Zenin. This program is free software; you
604may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
605
606PUSHCOLOR, POPCOLOR, and LOCALCOLOR were contributed by openmethods.com
607voice solutions.
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609=cut