NAME

Data::Unixish::ANSI::color - Colorize text with ANSI color codes

VERSION

This document describes version 0.08 of Data::Unixish::ANSI::color (from Perl distribution Data-Unixish-ANSI), released on 2017-07-10.

SYNOPSIS

In Perl:

 use Data::Unixish qw(lduxl);
 $colorized = lduxl(['ANSI::color' => {color=>"red"}], "red"); # "\e[31mred\e[0m"

In command line:

 % echo -e "HELLO" | dux ANSI::color --color red; # text will appear in red
 HELLO

FUNCTIONS

color

Usage:

 color(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Colorize text with ANSI color codes.

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

• color* => str

  The color to use for each item.

  Example: red, bold blue, yellow on_magenta, black on_bright_yellow. See Perl module Term::ANSIColor for more details.

  You can also supply raw ANSI code.

• in => array

  Input stream (e.g. array or filehandle).

• out => any

  Output stream (e.g. array or filehandle).

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Unixish-ANSI.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Data-Unixish-ansi.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Data-Unixish-ANSI

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

cpanm Data::Unixish::ANSI

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Data::Unixish::ANSI