NAME

Minecraft::SectionFilter - Strip/Process magical § characters from minecraft

VERSION

version 0.003004

SYNOPSIS

use Minecraft::SectionFilter;
while(<$some_stream_of_text>){
    if( $ENV{MODE} eq 'STRIP' ) {
        print(strip_sections($_))
    }
    else {
        print(ansi_encode_sections($_));
    }
}

FUNCTIONS

translate_sections

Parse a string into a series of elements;

my (@list) = translate_sections($string)

Resulting list will be a list of hashrefs, either:

{ type => text , content => "the string itself" }

or

{ type => section, section_code => $char }

strip_sections

Strip section codes from a string.

my $output = strip_sections( $input );

ansi_encode_sections

Translate section codes to Term::ANSIColor color codes.

STDOUT->print( ansi_encode_sections( $minecraft_string ) );

SEE ALSO

Minecraft::RCON which has a similar feature, except its not user-acessible/reusable.

AUTHOR

Kent Fredric kentnl@cpan.org

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Kent Fredric kentfredric@gmail.com.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.