Ken Williams said: > > On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Enrico Sorcinelli wrote: >> >> lately I've needed to colorize (or highlight) the lines of some IRC >> logs. >> I've searched on CPAN and apparently there isn't any similar module. >> So I wrote a simple script in order to do it. >> The output can be in html or to terminal (by using Escape sequences). >> The module is very simple but after some little modifies, the module >> is now >> capable to colorize not only IRC logs but all logs (in general all >> text file) >> by defining a custom regex to match lines (maybe in the future, the >> regex >> for known log formats can be included into the distro). >> I've searched on CPAN and apparently there isn't any similar modules. >> So, I decided to package it and if someone think that will be useful, I >> will put it into CPAN. :-) > > I don't see any reason to put it in Log:: . I suggest Text::Colorize .
And I suggest anything but Colorize. Even if it were a real word, some people would want to spell it Colourise. I know its use as a computing term dates back quite a few years, but that doesn't stop it grating on me. Highlight I can live with (but not Hilite). Anyway, feel free to ignore that rant :-) I really just wanted to point this out, in case you hadn't seen it: http://freshmeat.net/projects/colorize.pl/?topic_id=245%2C92 -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net
