String::TtyLength - length or width of string excluding ANSI tty codes
use Text::Table::Tiny 0.02 qw/ tty_length tty_width /; $length = tty_length("\e[1mbold text\e[0m"); print "length = $length\n"; # 9 $width = tty_width("😄"); print "width = $width\n"; # 2
This module provides two functions which tell you the length and width of a string as it will appear on a terminal (tty), excluding any ANSI escape codes.
tty_length returns the length of a string excluding any ANSI tty / terminal escape codes.
tty_length
tty_width returns the number of columns on a terminal that the string will take up, also excluding any escape codes.
tty_width
For non-wide characters, the functions will return the same value. But consider the following:
my $emoji = "😄"; my $length = tty_length($emoji); # 1 my $width = tty_width($emoji); # 2
If you're trying to align text in columns, then you'll probably want tty_width; if you just want to know the number of characters, using tty_length.
Takes a single string, and returns the length of the string, excluding any escape sequences.
Note: the escape sequences could include cursor movement, so the length returned by this function might not be the number of characters that would be visible on screen. But length_of_string_excluding_escape_sequences() was just too long.
length_of_string_excluding_escape_sequences()
Takes a single string and returns the number of columns that the string will take up on a terminal.
You may find that sometimes tty_width() returns the wrong number. If you do, please submit a bug, or email me at the address below.
tty_width()
This was added in version 0.02 of String::TtyLength, so you should require at least that version of this module, as per the SYNOPSIS.
String::TtyLength
colorstrip() in Term::ANSIColor will remove ANSI color escape sequences from a string, but not all ANSI escape sequences.
colorstrip()
https://github.com/neilb/String-TtyLength
Neil Bowers <neilb@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2020 by Neil Bowers.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install String::TtyLength, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm String::TtyLength
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install String::TtyLength
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.