ANSI(?) characters from perl debug are unwanted

[Alan]

The display from perl -d is showing what i guess are ANSI display
control sequences in an Windows XP Command Prompt window.

E.g. the command line
perl -d -e 42
gives
main:-e:1): 42
?[4;m DB<1> ?[1mq
?[0m

<I've snipped the banner lines>

This is using perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(ActiveState build 806)

How can the ANSI output be turned off, or alternatively XP be told to
handle the ANSI correctly?

thanks
Alan

 

[Walter Roberson]

:The display from perl -d is showing what i guess are ANSI display
:control sequences in an Windows XP Command Prompt window.

:E.g. the command line
: perl -d -e 42
:gives
: main:-e:1): 42
: ?[4;m DB<1> ?[1mq

Those are ANSI alright. Turn on underline, then turn on bold.


:How can the ANSI output be turned off,

You could remove the Term::ANSI module I suppose.


r alternatively XP be told to handle the ANSI correctly?

Sorry, no clue on that part.