strip colors

[metamindxx]

Great module.

Is there a way to strip the color formatting from a string. I set the color in the code depending on the context and send it to the logger. The logger sends it to the console and also to a log file. I am getting things like "�[39m�[22m" appearing in my log file. I would like to strip the color information before it gets logged to file.

Thanks.

[Marak]

Hrmmm, I'm not really sure of the best approach. You could strip the escape codes back out, but there is probably a more elegant solution if you implement a new logging class.

What would the API look like for this?

[metamindxx]

I was just thinking of having something like:

console.log(str) // includes control chars

and f.write(str.plain) // just writes the plain string ( or maybe str.s for brevity)

[Marak]

I think tty detection might be the best way to go for this. That way, if the TTY isn't available it won't use the unicode values.