NAME

Data::Unixish::ANSI::highlight - Highlight string/pattern with color

VERSION

This document describes version 0.07 of Data::Unixish::ANSI::highlight (from Perl distribution Data-Unixish-ANSI), released on 2015-09-03.

SYNOPSIS

In Perl:

 use Data::Unixish qw(lduxl);
 $hilited = lduxl(['ANSI::highlight' => {string=>"er"}], "merah"); # "m\e[31m\e[1mer\e[0mah"

In command line:

 % echo -e "merah" | dux ANSI::highlight -s er; # 'er' will be highlighted
 merah

FUNCTIONS

highlight(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Highlight string/pattern with color.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

• ci => bool (default: 0)

  Whether to search case-insensitively.

• color => str (default: "bold red")

  The color to use for each item.

  Example: red, bold blue, yellow on_magenta, black on_bright_yellow. See Perl module Term::ANSIColor for more details.

  You can also supply raw ANSI code.

• in => array

  Input stream (e.g. array or filehandle).

• out => any

  Output stream (e.g. array or filehandle).

• pattern => str

  Regex pattern to search.

  Either this or string is required.

• string => str

  String to search.

  Either this or pattern is required.

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Unixish-ANSI.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Data-Unixish-ansi.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Data-Unixish-ANSI

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.