Crate cansi

Catergorise ANSI - ANSI escape code parser and categoriser

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cansi will parse text with ANSI escape sequences in it and return a deconstructed text with metadata around the colouring and styling. cansi is only concerned with CSI sequences, particuarly the SGR parameters. cansi will not construct escaped text, there are crates such as colored that do a great job of colouring and styling text.

Example usage

This example was done using the colored crate to help with constructing the escaped text string. It will work with other tools that inject escape sequences into text strings (given they follow ANSI specification).

let v = &mut Vec::new();
write!(
  v,
  "Hello, {}{}{}{}{}{}",
  "w".white().on_red(),
  "o".cyan().on_green(),
  "r".magenta().on_yellow(),
  "l".blue().on_white(),
  "d".yellow().on_bright_cyan(),
  "!".bright_red().on_bright_yellow(),
)
.unwrap();

let text = String::from_utf8_lossy(&v);
let result = categorise_text(&text); // cansi function

assert_eq!(result.len(), 7); // there should be seven differently styled components

assert_eq!("Hello, world!", &construct_text_no_codes(&result));

// 'Hello, ' is just defaults
assert_eq!(
  result[0],
  CategorisedSlice {
    text: "Hello, ",
    start: 0,
    end: 7,
    fg_colour: Color::White,
    bg_colour: Color::Black,
    intensity: Intensity::Normal,
    italic: false,
    underline: false,
    blink: false,
    reversed: false,
    hidden: false,
    strikethrough: false
  }
);

// 'w' is coloured differently
assert_eq!(
  result[1],
  CategorisedSlice {
    text: "w",
    start: 15,
    end: 16,
    fg_colour: Color::White,
    bg_colour: Color::Red,
    intensity: Intensity::Normal,
    italic: false,
    underline: false,
    blink: false,
    reversed: false,
    hidden: false,
    strikethrough: false
  }
);

Targeting no_std

This crate can use alloc in place of the standard library for no_std targets. The standard library is enabled by default, so disabling default features and enabling the alloc feature is required to use the crate this way.

[dependencies]
cansi = { version = "2.1.0", default-features = false, features = ["alloc"] }

Modules

v3

Update API for version 3.0 of the crate.

Structs

CategorisedLineIteratorDeprecated

An iterator structure for CategorisedSlices, iterating over each new line (\n or \r\n) and returns the categorised slices within those. CategorisedSlices that include a new line are split with the same style.

CategorisedSliceDeprecated

Data structure that holds information about colouring and styling of a text slice.

Match

A match.

Enums

Color

The 8 standard colors.

Intensity

The emphasis (bold, faint) states.

Functions

categorise_textDeprecated

Parses the text and returns each formatted slice in order. The ANSI escape codes are not included in the text slices.

construct_text_no_codesDeprecated

Constructs a string of the categorised text without the ANSI escape characters.

line_iterDeprecated

Construct an iterator over each new line (\n or \r\n) and returns the categorised slices within those. CategorisedSlices that include a new line are split with the same style.

parse

Parses ANSI escape codes from the given text, returning a vector of Match.

Type Definitions

CategorisedLineDeprecated

The item type of CategorisedLineIterator.

CategorisedSlicesDeprecated

Type definition of the collection of CategorisedSlices.