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Color::ANSI::Util(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Color::ANSI::Util(3)

Color::ANSI::Util - Routines for dealing with ANSI colors

This document describes version 0.164 of Color::ANSI::Util (from Perl distribution Color-ANSI-Util), released on 2020-06-09.

 use Color::ANSI::Util qw(
     ansifg
     ansibg
 );

 say ansifg("f0c010"); # => "\e[33;1m" (on 16-color terminal)
                       # => "\e[38;5;11m" (on 256-color terminal)
                       # => "\e[38;2;240;192;16m" (on 24-bit-color terminal)

 say ansibg("ff5f87"); # => "\e[47m" (on 16-color terminal)
                       # => "\e[48;5;7m" (on 256-color terminal)
                       # => "\e[48;2;255;95;135m" (on 24-bit-color terminal)

There are a bunch of other exportable functions too, mostly for converting between RGB and ANSI color (16/256/24bit color depth).

This module provides routines for dealing with ANSI colors. The two main functions are "ansifg" and "ansibg". With those functions, you can specify colors in RGB and let it output the correct ANSI color escape code according to the color depth support of the terminal (whether 16-color, 256-color, or 24bit). There are other functions to convert RGB to ANSI in specific color depths, or reverse functions to convert from ANSI to RGB codes.

Keywords: xterm, xterm-256color, terminal

Algorithm for finding closest indexed color from RGB color currently not very efficient. Probably can add some threshold square distance, below which we can shortcut to the final answer.

Usage:

 ansi16_to_rgb($color) -> color::rgb24

Convert ANSI-16 color to RGB.

Returns 6-hexdigit, e.g. 'ff00cc'.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::ansi16

Return value: (color::rgb24)

Usage:

 ansi256_to_rgb($color) -> color::rgb24

Convert ANSI-256 color to RGB.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::ansi256

Return value: (color::rgb24)

Usage:

 rgb_to_ansi16($color) -> color::ansi16

Convert RGB to ANSI-16 color.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::rgb24

Return value: (color::ansi16)

Usage:

 rgb_to_ansi16_bg_code($color) -> str

Convert RGB to ANSI-16 color escape sequence to change background color.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::rgb24

Return value: (str)

Usage:

 rgb_to_ansi16_fg_code($color) -> str

Convert RGB to ANSI-16 color escape sequence to change foreground color.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::rgb24

Return value: (str)

Usage:

 rgb_to_ansi24b_bg_code($color) -> str

Convert RGB to ANSI 24bit-color escape sequence to change background color.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::rgb24

Return value: (str)

Usage:

 rgb_to_ansi24b_fg_code($color) -> str

Convert RGB to ANSI 24bit-color escape sequence to change foreground color.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::rgb24

Return value: (str)

Usage:

 rgb_to_ansi256($color) -> color::ansi256

Convert RGB to ANSI-256 color.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::rgb24

Return value: (color::ansi256)

Usage:

 rgb_to_ansi256_bg_code($color) -> str

Convert RGB to ANSI-256 color escape sequence to change background color.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::rgb24

Return value: (str)

Usage:

 rgb_to_ansi256_fg_code($color) -> str

Convert RGB to ANSI-256 color escape sequence to change foreground color.

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::rgb24

Return value: (str)

Usage:

 rgb_to_ansi_bg_code($color) -> str

Convert RGB to ANSI color escape sequence to change background color.

Autodetect terminal capability and can return either empty string, 16-color, 256-color, or 24bit-code.

Which color depth used is determined by "COLOR_DEPTH" environment setting or from Term::Detect::Software if that module is available). In other words, this function automatically chooses rgb_to_ansi{24b,256,16}bgcode().

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::rgb24

Return value: (str)

Usage:

 rgb_to_ansi_fg_code($color) -> str

Convert RGB to ANSI color escape sequence to change foreground color.

Autodetect terminal capability and can return either empty string, 16-color, 256-color, or 24bit-code.

Color depth used is determined by "COLOR_DEPTH" environment setting or from Term::Detect::Software if that module is available. In other words, this function automatically chooses rgb_to_ansi{24b,256,16}fgcode().

This function is not exported by default, but exportable.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

$color* => color::rgb24

Return value: (str)

Alias for rgb_to_ansi16_fg_code().

Alias for rgb_to_ansi16_bg_code().

Alias for rgb_to_ansi256_fg_code().

Alias for rgb_to_ansi256_bg_code().

Alias for rgb_to_ansi24b_fg_code().

Alias for rgb_to_ansi24b_bg_code().

Alias for rgb_to_ansi_fg_code().

Alias for rgb_to_ansi_bg_code().

Returns "\e[0m", which is the ANSI escape sequence to reset color. Normally you print this sequence after you print colored text.

If $conditional is set to true, then ansi_reset() will return "" if color is disabled.

Can be used to explicitly disable color. See <https://no-color.org> for more details.

Observed by: ansi{fg,bg}.

Can be used to explicitly disable color by setting it to 0.

Observed by: ansi{fg,bg}.

Can be used to explicitly set color depth instead of trying to detect appropriate color depth.

Observed by: ansi{fg,bg}.

Please visit the project's homepage at <https://metacpan.org/release/Color-ANSI-Util>.

Source repository is at <https://github.com/perlancar/perl-Color-ANSI-Util>.

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

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.

Term::ANSIColor

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code>

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

This software is copyright (c) 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 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.

2020-06-09 perl v5.32.1

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