cprint

Improved print function that handles ANSI escapes even on Windows

Usage

The function returned by this Lua module is compatible with the default Lua print function and can serve as a replacement for it.

print = require( "cprint" )
print( "hello world" )

Additionally, the following ANSI color escape sequences are supported on both Windows and POSIX platforms:

• "\027[30m" to "\027[37m", and "\027[39m"

  Those escape sequences set the foreground color to black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta/purple, cyan/aqua, white, and the default foreground color, respectively.

• "\027[40m" to "\027[47m", and "\027[49m"

  Those escape sequences set the background color to black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta/purple, cyan/aqua, white, and the default background color, respectively.

• "\027[0m", "\027[1m", and "\027[7m"

  Those escape sequences represent normal mode, bright/highlighted mode, and inverted mode.

The escape sequences can be combined by separating the numbers with ;, e.g.:

print( "\027[31;1mbright red\027[39;49;0m" )

If the standard output stream is not connected to a terminal/console, or if the terminal is not recognized as compatible, the escape sequences are stripped from the output.

License

cprint is copyrighted free software distributed under the MIT license (the same license as Lua 5.1). The full license text follows:

cprint (c) 2013 Philipp Janda

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR COPYRIGHT HOLDER BE LIABLE FOR ANY
CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

The actual code implementing the print function is taken almost verbatim from the Lua source code, which is

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