unerline or highlight keywords in a string

[rizzy]

I have some very long strings that I want to print to the screen and read through individually. In order to make it easier to read, I want to highlight (e.g., underline, bold, color, etc.) a few keywords.

Is there an easy way to do this without splitting up each string around every keyword and inserting formatting commands?

I think I can do a global replace of my keywords with the formatted keyword like so:

$mystring =~ s/keyword/formatted keyword/g;
print "$mystring";

will this work, or will the print command interpret the formatting commands as plain text?

Also, is there a simple formatting command for bold or underline?

[zek152]

If you are on a *nix system you should check out Term::ANSIColor.

[rizzy]

Thanks. I'm doing this on windows (don't ask). ANyway, I figured it out. I'm using:


use Win32::Console::ANSI;
use Term::ANSIScreen qw/:color /;


and my substitution method works for that.