How do I create a coloured text?

Question

In C++ the following code when run in the console will print the text in colour:

cout << "\e[32;40mGreenForegroundAndBlackBackgroundText" << endl;

In D I get an error:

string s = "\e[32;40mGreenForegroundAndBlackBackgroundText";  // undefined escape sequence \e

Is there any way to get this working in D?

Answer 1

The C++ constant string escape \e for the escape character is a non-standard GCC extension of C for character escapes (also adopted by Clang, probably).

You just need to put the octal encoding of it perhaps as \033 or \x1b

Be careful however that \e[32;40m is not standard C or C++, it is the ANSI terminal escape sequence related to tty-s.