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e3e5e1ea 1# Term::ANSIColor -- Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences.
51da1d85 2# $Id: ANSIColor.pm,v 1.10 2005/08/21 18:31:58 eagle Exp $
e3e5e1ea 3#
51da1d85 4# Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2005
5# by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> and Zenin
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.
f63addff 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##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 16
17package Term::ANSIColor;
18require 5.001;
19
20use strict;
110e9fb0 21use vars qw($AUTOLOAD $AUTORESET $EACHLINE @ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK
22 %EXPORT_TAGS $VERSION %attributes %attributes_r);
e3e5e1ea 23
24use Exporter ();
25@ISA = qw(Exporter);
26@EXPORT = qw(color colored);
110e9fb0 27@EXPORT_OK = qw(uncolor);
2e589669 28%EXPORT_TAGS = (constants => [qw(CLEAR RESET BOLD DARK UNDERLINE UNDERSCORE
29 BLINK REVERSE CONCEALED BLACK RED GREEN
30 YELLOW BLUE MAGENTA CYAN WHITE ON_BLACK
31 ON_RED ON_GREEN ON_YELLOW ON_BLUE ON_MAGENTA
e3e5e1ea 32 ON_CYAN ON_WHITE)]);
33Exporter::export_ok_tags ('constants');
f63addff 34
135dda52 35# Don't use the CVS revision as the version, since this module is also in Perl
36# core and too many things could munge CVS magic revision strings.
51da1d85 37$VERSION = '1.10';
e3e5e1ea 38
135dda52 39##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 40# Internal data structures
135dda52 41##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 42
43%attributes = ('clear' => 0,
44 'reset' => 0,
45 'bold' => 1,
f63addff 46 'dark' => 2,
e3e5e1ea 47 'underline' => 4,
48 'underscore' => 4,
49 'blink' => 5,
50 'reverse' => 7,
51 'concealed' => 8,
52
110e9fb0 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,
e3e5e1ea 60 'white' => 37, 'on_white' => 47);
61
110e9fb0 62# Reverse lookup. Alphabetically first name for a sequence is preferred.
63for (reverse sort keys %attributes) {
64 $attributes_r{$attributes{$_}} = $_;
65}
66
135dda52 67##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 68# Implementation (constant form)
135dda52 69##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 70
135dda52 71# Time to have fun! We now want to define the constant subs, which are named
72# the same as the attributes above but in all caps. Each constant sub needs
73# to act differently depending on whether $AUTORESET is set. Without
e3e5e1ea 74# autoreset:
75#
135dda52 76# BLUE "text\n" ==> "\e[34mtext\n"
e3e5e1ea 77#
78# If $AUTORESET is set, we should instead get:
79#
135dda52 80# BLUE "text\n" ==> "\e[34mtext\n\e[0m"
e3e5e1ea 81#
82# The sub also needs to handle the case where it has no arguments correctly.
135dda52 83# Maintaining all of this as separate subs would be a major nightmare, as well
84# as duplicate the %attributes hash, so instead we define an AUTOLOAD sub to
85# define the constant subs on demand. To do that, we check the name of the
86# called sub against the list of attributes, and if it's an all-caps version
87# of one of them, we define the sub on the fly and then run it.
110e9fb0 88#
89# If the environment variable ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED is set, turn all of the
90# generated subs into pass-through functions that don't add any escape
91# sequences. This is to make it easier to write scripts that also work on
92# systems without any ANSI support, like Windows consoles.
e3e5e1ea 93sub AUTOLOAD {
110e9fb0 94 my $enable_colors = !defined $ENV{ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED};
e3e5e1ea 95 my $sub;
96 ($sub = $AUTOLOAD) =~ s/^.*:://;
97 my $attr = $attributes{lc $sub};
98 if ($sub =~ /^[A-Z_]+$/ && defined $attr) {
110e9fb0 99 $attr = $enable_colors ? "\e[" . $attr . 'm' : '';
e3e5e1ea 100 eval qq {
101 sub $AUTOLOAD {
102 if (\$AUTORESET && \@_) {
103 '$attr' . "\@_" . "\e[0m";
104 } else {
105 ('$attr' . "\@_");
106 }
107 }
108 };
109 goto &$AUTOLOAD;
110 } else {
f63addff 111 require Carp;
112 Carp::croak ("undefined subroutine &$AUTOLOAD called");
e3e5e1ea 113 }
114}
115
135dda52 116##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 117# Implementation (attribute string form)
135dda52 118##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 119
120# Return the escape code for a given set of color attributes.
121sub color {
110e9fb0 122 return '' if defined $ENV{ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED};
e3e5e1ea 123 my @codes = map { split } @_;
124 my $attribute = '';
125 foreach (@codes) {
126 $_ = lc $_;
127 unless (defined $attributes{$_}) {
128 require Carp;
129 Carp::croak ("Invalid attribute name $_");
130 }
131 $attribute .= $attributes{$_} . ';';
132 }
133 chop $attribute;
134 ($attribute ne '') ? "\e[${attribute}m" : undef;
135}
136
110e9fb0 137# Return a list of named color attributes for a given set of escape codes.
135dda52 138# Escape sequences can be given with or without enclosing "\e[" and "m". The
139# empty escape sequence '' or "\e[m" gives an empty list of attrs.
110e9fb0 140sub uncolor {
141 my (@nums, @result);
142 for (@_) {
143 my $escape = $_;
144 $escape =~ s/^\e\[//;
145 $escape =~ s/m$//;
146 unless ($escape =~ /^((?:\d+;)*\d*)$/) {
147 require Carp;
148 Carp::croak ("Bad escape sequence $_");
149 }
150 push (@nums, split (/;/, $1));
151 }
152 for (@nums) {
153 $_ += 0; # Strip leading zeroes
154 my $name = $attributes_r{$_};
155 if (!defined $name) {
156 require Carp;
157 Carp::croak ("No name for escape sequence $_" );
158 }
159 push (@result, $name);
160 }
161 @result;
162}
163
e3e5e1ea 164# Given a string and a set of attributes, returns the string surrounded by
165# escape codes to set those attributes and then clear them at the end of the
f63addff 166# string. The attributes can be given either as an array ref as the first
135dda52 167# argument or as a list as the second and subsequent arguments. If $EACHLINE
168# is set, insert a reset before each occurrence of the string $EACHLINE and
169# the starting attribute code after the string $EACHLINE, so that no attribute
170# crosses line delimiters (this is often desirable if the output is to be
171# piped to a pager or some other program).
e3e5e1ea 172sub colored {
f63addff 173 my ($string, @codes);
174 if (ref $_[0]) {
175 @codes = @{+shift};
176 $string = join ('', @_);
177 } else {
178 $string = shift;
179 @codes = @_;
180 }
110e9fb0 181 return $string if defined $ENV{ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED};
e3e5e1ea 182 if (defined $EACHLINE) {
f63addff 183 my $attr = color (@codes);
110e9fb0 184 join '',
51da1d85 185 map { $_ ne $EACHLINE ? $attr . $_ . "\e[0m" : $_ }
186 grep { length ($_) > 0 }
187 split (/(\Q$EACHLINE\E)/, $string);
e3e5e1ea 188 } else {
f63addff 189 color (@codes) . $string . "\e[0m";
e3e5e1ea 190 }
191}
192
135dda52 193##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 194# Module return value and documentation
135dda52 195##############################################################################
e3e5e1ea 196
197# Ensure we evaluate to true.
1981;
199__END__
200
201=head1 NAME
202
203Term::ANSIColor - Color screen output using ANSI escape sequences
204
205=head1 SYNOPSIS
206
207 use Term::ANSIColor;
208 print color 'bold blue';
209 print "This text is bold blue.\n";
210 print color 'reset';
211 print "This text is normal.\n";
212 print colored ("Yellow on magenta.\n", 'yellow on_magenta');
213 print "This text is normal.\n";
f63addff 214 print colored ['yellow on_magenta'], "Yellow on magenta.\n";
e3e5e1ea 215
110e9fb0 216 use Term::ANSIColor qw(uncolor);
217 print uncolor '01;31', "\n";
218
e3e5e1ea 219 use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
220 print BOLD, BLUE, "This text is in bold blue.\n", RESET;
221
222 use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
223 $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET = 1;
224 print BOLD BLUE "This text is in bold blue.\n";
225 print "This text is normal.\n";
226
227=head1 DESCRIPTION
228
229This module has two interfaces, one through color() and colored() and the
110e9fb0 230other through constants. It also offers the utility function uncolor(),
96cbc021 231which has to be explicitly imported to be used (see L<SYNOPSIS>).
bbc7dcd2 232
e3e5e1ea 233color() takes any number of strings as arguments and considers them to be
234space-separated lists of attributes. It then forms and returns the escape
110e9fb0 235sequence to set those attributes. It doesn't print it out, just returns it,
236so you'll have to print it yourself if you want to (this is so that you can
237save it as a string, pass it to something else, send it to a file handle, or
238do anything else with it that you might care to).
239
240uncolor() performs the opposite translation, turning escape sequences
241into a list of strings.
e3e5e1ea 242
243The recognized attributes (all of which should be fairly intuitive) are
110e9fb0 244clear, reset, dark, bold, underline, underscore, blink, reverse, concealed,
245black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, on_black, on_red, on_green,
246on_yellow, on_blue, on_magenta, on_cyan, and on_white. Case is not
247significant. Underline and underscore are equivalent, as are clear and
248reset, so use whichever is the most intuitive to you. The color alone sets
249the foreground color, and on_color sets the background color.
e3e5e1ea 250
f63addff 251Note that not all attributes are supported by all terminal types, and some
252terminals may not support any of these sequences. Dark, blink, and
253concealed in particular are frequently not implemented.
254
255Attributes, once set, last until they are unset (by sending the attribute
256"reset"). Be careful to do this, or otherwise your attribute will last
257after your script is done running, and people get very annoyed at having
258their prompt and typing changed to weird colors.
e3e5e1ea 259
110e9fb0 260As an aid to help with this, colored() takes a scalar as the first argument
261and any number of attribute strings as the second argument and returns the
262scalar wrapped in escape codes so that the attributes will be set as
263requested before the string and reset to normal after the string.
264Alternately, you can pass a reference to an array as the first argument, and
265then the contents of that array will be taken as attributes and color codes
266and the remainder of the arguments as text to colorize.
f63addff 267
e3e5e1ea 268Normally, colored() just puts attribute codes at the beginning and end of
110e9fb0 269the string, but if you set $Term::ANSIColor::EACHLINE to some string, that
270string will be considered the line delimiter and the attribute will be set
271at the beginning of each line of the passed string and reset at the end of
272each line. This is often desirable if the output is being sent to a program
273like a pager that can be confused by attributes that span lines. Normally
274you'll want to set $Term::ANSIColor::EACHLINE to C<"\n"> to use this
275feature.
e3e5e1ea 276
277Alternately, if you import C<:constants>, you can use the constants CLEAR,
110e9fb0 278RESET, BOLD, DARK, UNDERLINE, UNDERSCORE, BLINK, REVERSE, CONCEALED, BLACK,
2e589669 279RED, GREEN, YELLOW, BLUE, MAGENTA, CYAN, WHITE, ON_BLACK, ON_RED, ON_GREEN,
280ON_YELLOW, ON_BLUE, ON_MAGENTA, ON_CYAN, and ON_WHITE directly. These are
281the same as color('attribute') and can be used if you prefer typing:
e3e5e1ea 282
283 print BOLD BLUE ON_WHITE "Text\n", RESET;
284
285to
286
287 print colored ("Text\n", 'bold blue on_white');
288
289When using the constants, if you don't want to have to remember to add the
290C<, RESET> at the end of each print line, you can set
291$Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET to a true value. Then, the display mode will
292automatically be reset if there is no comma after the constant. In other
293words, with that variable set:
294
295 print BOLD BLUE "Text\n";
296
297will reset the display mode afterwards, whereas:
298
299 print BOLD, BLUE, "Text\n";
300
301will not.
302
303The subroutine interface has the advantage over the constants interface in
f63addff 304that only two subroutines are exported into your namespace, versus
305twenty-two in the constants interface. On the flip side, the constants
306interface has the advantage of better compile time error checking, since
307misspelled names of colors or attributes in calls to color() and colored()
110e9fb0 308won't be caught until runtime whereas misspelled names of constants will be
3c4b39be 309caught at compile time. So, pollute your namespace with almost two dozen
110e9fb0 310subroutines that you may not even use that often, or risk a silly bug by
311mistyping an attribute. Your choice, TMTOWTDI after all.
e3e5e1ea 312
313=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
314
315=over 4
316
110e9fb0 317=item Bad escape sequence %s
318
319(F) You passed an invalid ANSI escape sequence to uncolor().
320
321=item Bareword "%s" not allowed while "strict subs" in use
322
323(F) You probably mistyped a constant color name such as:
324
325 $Foobar = FOOBAR . "This line should be blue\n";
326
327or:
328
329 @Foobar = FOOBAR, "This line should be blue\n";
330
331This will only show up under use strict (another good reason to run under
332use strict).
333
e3e5e1ea 334=item Invalid attribute name %s
335
f63addff 336(F) You passed an invalid attribute name to either color() or colored().
e3e5e1ea 337
f63addff 338=item Name "%s" used only once: possible typo
e3e5e1ea 339
f63addff 340(W) You probably mistyped a constant color name such as:
e3e5e1ea 341
342 print FOOBAR "This text is color FOOBAR\n";
343
344It's probably better to always use commas after constant names in order to
345force the next error.
346
347=item No comma allowed after filehandle
348
f63addff 349(F) You probably mistyped a constant color name such as:
e3e5e1ea 350
351 print FOOBAR, "This text is color FOOBAR\n";
352
353Generating this fatal compile error is one of the main advantages of using
354the constants interface, since you'll immediately know if you mistype a
355color name.
356
110e9fb0 357=item No name for escape sequence %s
e3e5e1ea 358
110e9fb0 359(F) The ANSI escape sequence passed to uncolor() contains escapes which
360aren't recognized and can't be translated to names.
e3e5e1ea 361
110e9fb0 362=back
e3e5e1ea 363
110e9fb0 364=head1 ENVIRONMENT
e3e5e1ea 365
110e9fb0 366=over 4
e3e5e1ea 367
110e9fb0 368=item ANSI_COLORS_DISABLED
369
370If this environment variable is set, all of the functions defined by this
371module (color(), colored(), and all of the constants not previously used in
372the program) will not output any escape sequences and instead will just
373return the empty string or pass through the original text as appropriate.
374This is intended to support easy use of scripts using this module on
375platforms that don't support ANSI escape sequences.
376
377For it to have its proper effect, this environment variable must be set
378before any color constants are used in the program.
e3e5e1ea 379
380=back
381
382=head1 RESTRICTIONS
383
384It would be nice if one could leave off the commas around the constants
385entirely and just say:
386
387 print BOLD BLUE ON_WHITE "Text\n" RESET;
388
389but the syntax of Perl doesn't allow this. You need a comma after the
390string. (Of course, you may consider it a bug that commas between all the
110e9fb0 391constants aren't required, in which case you may feel free to insert commas
392unless you're using $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET.)
e3e5e1ea 393
3c4b39be 394For easier debugging, you may prefer to always use the commas when not
110e9fb0 395setting $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET so that you'll get a fatal compile error
396rather than a warning.
e3e5e1ea 397
f63addff 398=head1 NOTES
399
110e9fb0 400The codes generated by this module are standard terminal control codes,
401complying with ECMA-48 and ISO 6429 (generally referred to as "ANSI color"
402for the color codes). The non-color control codes (bold, dark, italic,
403underline, and reverse) are part of the earlier ANSI X3.64 standard for
404control sequences for video terminals and peripherals.
405
406Note that not all displays are ISO 6429-compliant, or even X3.64-compliant
407(or are even attempting to be so). This module will not work as expected on
135dda52 408displays that do not honor these escape sequences, such as cmd.exe, 4nt.exe,
409and command.com under either Windows NT or Windows 2000. They may just be
410ignored, or they may display as an ESC character followed by some apparent
411garbage.
110e9fb0 412
f63addff 413Jean Delvare provided the following table of different common terminal
2d1e314f 414emulators and their support for the various attributes and others have helped
415me flesh it out:
f63addff 416
417 clear bold dark under blink reverse conceal
418 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
419 xterm yes yes no yes bold yes yes
420 linux yes yes yes bold yes yes no
421 rxvt yes yes no yes bold/black yes no
422 dtterm yes yes yes yes reverse yes yes
423 teraterm yes reverse no yes rev/red yes no
424 aixterm kinda normal no yes no yes yes
2d1e314f 425 PuTTY yes color no yes no yes no
426 Windows yes no no no no yes no
427 Cygwin SSH yes yes no color color color yes
92c7d2a2 428 Mac Terminal yes yes no yes yes yes yes
429
430Windows is Windows telnet, Cygwin SSH is the OpenSSH implementation under
431Cygwin on Windows NT, and Mac Terminal is the Terminal application in Mac OS
432X. Where the entry is other than yes or no, that emulator displays the
433given attribute as something else instead. Note that on an aixterm, clear
434doesn't reset colors; you have to explicitly set the colors back to what you
435want. More entries in this table are welcome.
110e9fb0 436
437Note that codes 3 (italic), 6 (rapid blink), and 9 (strikethrough) are
438specified in ANSI X3.64 and ECMA-048 but are not commonly supported by most
439displays and emulators and therefore aren't supported by this module at the
440present time. ECMA-048 also specifies a large number of other attributes,
441including a sequence of attributes for font changes, Fraktur characters,
442double-underlining, framing, circling, and overlining. As none of these
443attributes are widely supported or useful, they also aren't currently
444supported by this module.
445
446=head1 SEE ALSO
447
448ECMA-048 is available on-line (at least at the time of this writing) at
2d1e314f 449L<http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/ECMA-048.HTM>.
110e9fb0 450
451ISO 6429 is available from ISO for a charge; the author of this module does
452not own a copy of it. Since the source material for ISO 6429 was ECMA-048
453and the latter is available for free, there seems little reason to obtain
454the ISO standard.
f63addff 455
135dda52 456The current version of this module is always available from its web site at
457L<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/ansicolor/>. It is also part of the
458Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.
459
e3e5e1ea 460=head1 AUTHORS
461
110e9fb0 462Original idea (using constants) by Zenin, reimplemented using subs by Russ
135dda52 463Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, and then combined with the original idea by Russ
464with input from Zenin. Russ Allbery now maintains this module.
110e9fb0 465
135dda52 466=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
110e9fb0 467
135dda52 468Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
51da1d85 469and Zenin. This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or
470modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
e3e5e1ea 471
472=cut