Parsing Ascii Colour Codes (they look like this --> )

Does anyone know of a way to parse incoming text for ascii colour codes ( for example which is red) so that all text that follows the code is a certain colour? I.E, the MUD server at the other end which sends me the text with the codes in it sends:

| "Dream the dream and let it come true..." |


which should, when parsed, show the following:

| "Dream the dream and let it come true..." |

Any ideas? The source is downloadable from http://members.lycos.co.uk/vinarianl.../esmud_src.zip and the compiled version from http://members.lycos.co.uk/vinarianlegends/esmud.zip. If you can help, it'd be appreciated.

Oh, and while I remember, there's an annoying problem with that code where it adds a CrLf at the end of every line, but I don't want it to, because then you get loads of blank lines. If oyu run the prog, you'll see what I mena, but anyway, is there a way to search the incoming text line by line and remove the crlf fromthe end of each line? The server sends its text in UNIX format if that's any help... I got around that by using RTF boxes instead of normal text boxes, but it doubles the CrLf's rather than completely ignoring them. I'm confusing myself to... :(

Ben.

P.S. The source is based heavily on a tutorial from www.vbip.com, so no moaning about "Oh, you didn't write all of this", because I know I didn't, OK? I didn't know much about WinSocks until last night. *pokes*

You should do a function that passes over the recieved text and detect the colors in their special signs ().

I hope it helps,
Arie.

I've tried that, but I can't get it to read from the escappe sequence (the square and [) to the 'm'. It either reads too much or too little...

One time I attempted to write a mud client as well. I used a richtextbox to display colors. I was able to extract colors from the data. I stopped developing this client, because every time I wanted to add a new line, the rtf-box "flashed" (jumped to the start of the box, and then back to the end). It drove me nearly mad ;) A while later I stopped mudding as well.
I've attached the code to this post. It's in VB, and you're free to use code whatever you want. I hope it will help you.

Good luck!