If you're looking to do something in Perl and the back of your mind tells you that, surely, someone's done this before then there are two things to note:
• Someone probably HAS and
• It's probably available on the CPAN or as a built in module.

Thus when I was asked the question "How do I get coloured text in a terminal window in Perl" last week, I know there was going to be a module out there - and there is - Term::ANSIColor.

As ever, there's an excellent set of reference notes on th CPAN, but no complete cut-and-paste-this sample for you to try out, so I've written one and it's available here.
(written 2006-05-29 14:28:36)

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