From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-10-29T00:54:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Formatting (ANSI) highlighted strings

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:32:13 +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> Using the 'text/highlight' package on RubyForge, you can emit coloured
> strings to the console like so:
>    s = "string".bold.red.on_white
> Great.  Now if I want to format that using:
>    printf "%-10s goes here\n", s
> I'm not going to get (in B&W)
>    string     goes here
> Rather
>    string goes here
> Because
>     s.size > 10      # It contains escape sequences to enact colours.
> even though it only contains 6 printable characters.


> Does anyone have any alternative, or a bright idea?

s = "string".ljust(10).bold.red.on_white

?

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.10.28
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