print() to console log with color

Question

The code is:

let redColor = "\u{001B}[0;31m" var message = "Some Message" print(redColor + message)  //This doesn't work print("\(redColor)\(message)") //This also doesn't work 

and the output would look like this:

[0;31mSome Message 

I've also read this post: Color ouput with Swift command line tool, and it doesn't seem to work.

I don't want to use libraries.

Answer 1

Xcode doesn't support console coloring since Xcode 8.

But Since Xcode is fully unicode compatible, you can use emojis instead! for example you can use You can use ⚠️ for warning messages and 🛑 for error messages. (like the Xcode itself)

Or simply use these note books as a color:

📕: error message 📙: warning message 📗: ok status message 📘: action message 📓: canceled status message 📔: Or anything you like and want to recognize immediately by color 

for example:

print("⚠️", "Touch is not disabled as expected") 

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🎁 Bones

Using this method will help you to find the logs in the source code as fast as ⚡️ by a simple eye scan:

And you can search for them 📱👁 to let the Xcode take you there. Take a look at this result comparison:

Custom emoji search

vs

Word search

Answer 2

Nowadays, Xcode debugging console doesn't support coloring.