Provide a printf replacement with colors. This library provide a colorprintf function where colors can be set for a range using the syntax : $foreground;background[text] For example: colorprintf "Hello $red[%s]." "world"
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Colored Printf
This library provide a replacement to F# printf function with color support.
The syntax to set the color inside the string is $foreground;background[text] where both foreground and background
are optional.
The supported colors are the one from the System.ConsoleColor enum.
Examples
// Change the color of part of a string
colorprintfn "$red[Hello] $white;red[world]."
// Use sprintf syntax
colorprintfn "Hello $green[%s]: %s" "user" "Welcome to color!"
colorprintfn "$white[Progress]: $yellow[%.2f%%] (Eta $yellow[%i] minutes)" 42.33 5
// Use interpolated strings
let life = "La vie"
let is_ = "est"
colorprintfn $"""$white;blue[%s{life} ]$black;white[{is_} ]$white;red[{"belle"}]"""
// Specify the colors from variables
let logColor = ConsoleColor.Yellow
colorprintfn "result: $%A[Hello world]" logColor
colorprintfn $"result: ${logColor}[Hello world]"
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