Colored line in the output file using perl

[chandru1985]

Hi Guys ,
Can u help me out in Pel Coding as i'm new to perl . Can any one of them say whether it to print a line in a colored way in the output file using Filehandler ..


Codin is :::
Open(OUTFILE, ">$curDir/file2.out");
print OUTFILE "$result1\n\n";
close(OUTFILE);

[numberwhun]

Perl can output text to a file for you, sure, but as far as providing color to that line? I don't have any clue about that. I would think that that would be up to the program being used to view the files as to whether or not to color a line, if it had that capability. If you think about it, viewing a file in notepad would only display the text, without formatting because it cannot.

Regards,

Jeff

[KevinADC]

Hi Guys ,
Can u help me out in Pel Coding as i'm new to perl . Can any one of them say whether it to print a line in a colored way in the output file using Filehandler ..

Short answer is no. If you are using a specific file format you would supply whatever code the file format recognizes to produce colored output. For example, if you were writing to an html file:

print OUTFILE "<span color=\"red\">$result</span>";

[miller]

Short answer is no.

The slightly longer answer is "hell no". Stay away from the pretty colors. They seduce you but they are a waste of time.

- Miller

[KevinADC]

The slightly longer answer is "hell no". Stay away from the pretty colors. They seduce you but they are a waste of time.

- Miller

I pretty much agree with you here. It's 99.99% a bad idea from the get-go (from the beginning).