trapd...@trapd00r.se writes:

> And if you want to work with 256 colors (note that not all terminals support
> this, and it should be avoided if it's not for your own use) you can do
> something like this:
>
>
> my @colors;
> for(my $i=0;$i<256;$i++) {
>   push(@colors, "\033[38;5;$i".'m');
> }
> print "$colors[100] This is olive green text \033[0m\n";

***
,----
| Thank you all for good  pointers and nifty code snippets. 
`----
***

Makes a sort of a nifty effect to add:

for (@colors){
  print "$_  This is some nifty color $_\n";
}

I think modern Xterm supports all 256 but many of them look the same
here, on gentoo linux with TERM=xterm (in X) (even if I change term
from xterm to color-xterm)


-- 
To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org
For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org
http://learn.perl.org/


Reply via email to