Public bug reported:
If one attempts the following:
echo 'Hello, World!' | toilet -w 100 --metal | cowsay -n
The speech bubble is far too wide because cowsay does not ignore the
ansi escape codes used by toilet to colorize the output. The following
patch prevnts this.
--- cowsay 2010-12-22 13:24:57.000000000 +0100
+++ cowsay 2012-07-20 13:04:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -109,7 +109,8 @@
sub maxlength {
my ($l, $m);
$m = -1;
- for my $i (@_) {
+ for my $i (each @_) {
+ $i =~ s/\033\[(\d*;)*\d*m//g;
$l = length $i;
$m = $l if ($l > $m);
}
** Affects: cowsay (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Cowsay should ignore ANSI codes in its input when determining message
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