The ANSI escape sequences you’re looking for are the Select Graphic Rendition subset. All of these have the form \033[XXXm where XXX is a series of semicolon-separated parameters. To say, make text red, bold, and underlined (we’ll discuss many other options below) in C you might write: printf(“\033[31;1;4mHello\033[0m”); In C++ you’d use std::cout<<“\033[31;1;4mHello\033[0m”; In Python3 … Read more
Delete them with a regular expression: import re # 7-bit C1 ANSI sequences ansi_escape = re.compile(r”’ \x1B # ESC (?: # 7-bit C1 Fe (except CSI) [@-Z\\-_] | # or [ for CSI, followed by a control sequence \[ [0-?]* # Parameter bytes [ -/]* # Intermediate bytes [@-~] # Final byte ) ”’, re.VERBOSE) … Read more
[UPDATE] For latest Windows 10 please read useful contribution by @brainslugs83, just below in the comments to this answer. While for versions before Windows 10 Anniversary Update: ANSI.SYS has a restriction that it can run only in the context of the MS-DOS sub-system under Windows 95-Vista. Microsoft KB101875 explains how to enable ANSI.SYS in a … Read more