cli-textformat-cpp

Textformatpp is a lightweight C++ library to write colored and formated code onto the linux terminal/cli.
It has intentionally no class overhead to keep it as lightweight as possible and it is only capsuled into the 'text' namespaces.

Motivation

I was inspired by this stackoverflow post to make a good color/simple format library for C++ error and test messages on linux terminal.

Features

• Coloring text (black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white)
  • foreground and background support
• bold, underline and inverse text
• multiline support

Installation

• Copy the source and header file from /src into your project and import the header.

Examples

test.cpp is a reference how it works and can compiled and run with the Makefile

make run

The library is capsuled at the namespace text. I don't recommend to use the using text; statement.

Below are also some examples:

std::cout << text::green("Hello World!") << std::endl; // green text at console output
std::cout << text::green("Multi line Example", true) << std::endl; // enables multiline support 
std::cout << "Test" << std::endl; // green text 
std::cout << "Hello" << text::disable_multiline() << std::endl; // green text, disables multiline 
std::cout << "Normal" << std::endl; // normal console output (not green); 
std::cout << text::bold(text::underline(text::red)) << std::endl; // bold and green 

TODO

• port to other languages when finished

Support

If some errors appears please write a issue that I can fix it.

License

MIT