Terminal control/Coloured text: Difference between revisions

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Coloured text and the background colour can be set using ANSI escape codes.

For a list of these codes see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code.

There are also many useful codes given in the Java example.

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#include <iostream>

int main() {

std::cout << "\033[42m";

std::cout << "\033[4;37m";

std::cout << "Green background with underlined white text" << std::endl;

std::cout << "\033[0m" << std::endl;

std::cout << "\033[0;103m";

std::cout << "\033[1;34m";

std::cout << "Bright yellow background with bold blue text" << std::endl;

std::cout << "\033[0m" << std::endl;

std::cout << "\033[46m";

std::cout << "\033[1;95m";

std::cout << "Cyan background with bold bright magenta text" << std::endl;

std::cout << "\033[0m" << std::endl;