ANSIEscapeHelper

ANSIEscapeHelper is an Objective-C class for dealing with ANSI escape sequences. Its main purpose is to translate between NSStrings that contain ANSI escape sequences and similarly formatted NSAttributedStrings.

You can read the API documentation here.

Here's a quick and simple example of how you'd most likely want to use this class:

ANSIEscapeHelper *ansiEscapeHelper =
    [[[ANSIEscapeHelper alloc] init] autorelease];

// display an ANSI-escaped string in a text view:
NSString *ansiEscapedStr =
    @"Let's pretend this string contains ANSI escape sequences";
NSAttributedString *attrStr =
    [ansiEscapeHelper
     attributedStringWithANSIEscapedString:ansiEscapedStr
     ];
[[nsTextViewInstance textStorage] setAttributedString:attrStr];

// get an ANSI-escaped string from a text view:
NSAttributedString *attrStr =
    [nsTextViewInstance textStorage];
NSString *ansiEscapedStr =
    [ansiEscapeHelper
     ansiEscapedStringWithAttributedString:attrStr
     ];

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