From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2003-10-29T06:02:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Formatting (ANSI) highlighted strings

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 2:54:03 AM, Austin wrote:

> 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

> ?


Hmmm... might get a bit hairy with some more complex formats, but I
think it might just be good enough.  Thanks.

Gavin