Test::B...::Color(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Test::B...::Color(3pm) page — yes, that’s Test::Builder::Tester::Color from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide. Its whole gig? Turning on colour in Test::Builder::Tester. periodt. 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

So when you’re running a test script, you literally do this:

perl -MTest::Builder::Tester::Color test.t

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Importing this module causes the subroutine color in Test::Builder::Tester to be called with a true value, which causes colour highlighting to be turned on in debug output. That’s the whole magic trick. 💅

And like, the sole purpose of this module is to enable colour highlighting from the command line. That’s it. That’s the vibe. ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright Mark Fowler <mark@twoshortplanks.com> 2002.

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

💀 BUGS 💀

Real talk: this module will have no effect unless Term::ANSIColor is installed. no cap. 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• Test::Builder::Tester
• Term::ANSIColor

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mwah 💋 — this iconic page came from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03. 🫶