TAP::FORMATTER::COLOR(3perl)

💖 TAP::Formatter::Color 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for TAP::Formatter::Color — the little Perl module that runs your test scripts with color. yes, actual color. in a terminal. we love to see it. 🎀

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✨ VERSION ✨

Version 3.52 — she's serving us the 3.52 era, no notes. 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so first things first, and I need you to hear me on this: this harness is experimental. like, genuinely. the author (hi bestie, we see you) says you may not like the colors they picked and — this is the part that hurts — there is not yet an easy way to override them. so it's giving "trust the process", it's giving "the colors are the colors". 😭

Functionally? This test harness is the same as TAP::Harness, bestie. Exact same vibes. The one difference is that test results come out in color. Here's the whole palette, memorize it:

• Passing tests are printed in green ✅ slay
• Failing tests are in red 💀 (as they should be)
• Skipped tests are blue on a white background 🦋
• TODO tests are printed in white 🤍

And the graceful-fallback moment: if Term::ANSIColor cannot be found — and also Win32::Console::ANSI if you're running under Windows — then the tests will just be run without color. No crash, no drama, just monochrome. we cope. 🙈

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

here's the vibe in code form, copy it exactly bestie:

use TAP::Formatter::Color;
my $harness = TAP::Formatter::Color->new( \%args );
$harness->runtests(@tests);

like, that's it. that's the whole ritual. ✨

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🫶 METHODS 🫶

💜 Class Methods

• new — the constructor, and she returns a fresh new TAP::Formatter::Color object for you. 💖 but heads up: if Term::ANSIColor is not installed, she returns undef. no object, no vibes, nothing.
• can_color — called like this:

Test::Formatter::Color->can_color()

Returns a boolean telling you whether this module can actually generate colored output right now. This will be false if it couldn't load the modules needed for your current platform. so like, a little vibe check before you commit. ⭐

• set_color — Set the output color. that's the whole job, and she does it. 💅

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ngl, the "experimental, and you can't override the colors yet" thing is the main character twist of this whole page. go in with your eyes open, bestie. 👑

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that's the whole page, fr fr. 🧚

this was TAP::Formatter::Color, page 3perl, from perl v5.44.0, dated 2026-10-17. mwah, take care of her, and go make those tests pretty. 🌸💖✨