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cansi

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Catergorise ANSI - ANSI escape code parser and categoriser

See the rs docs. Look at progress and contribute on github.

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).

extern crate cansi;
extern crate colored;
 
use cansi::*;
use colored::*;
use std::io::Write;
 
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_as_bytes: b"Hello, ",
    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_as_bytes: b"w",
    fg_colour: Color::White,
    bg_colour: Color::Red,
    intensity: Intensity::Normal,
    italic: false,
    underline: false,
    blink: false,
    reversed: false,
    hidden: false,
    strikethrough: false
  }
);

Structs

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

Enums

Re-export of colored::Color. The 8 standard colors.
The emphasis (bold, faint) states.

Functions

Parses the text and returns each formatted slice in order. The ANSI escape codes are not included in the text slices.
Constructs a string of the categorised text without the ANSI escape characters.

Type Definitions

Type definition of the collection of CategorisedSlices.