how to give color to an output text

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Elysi Cochin
Elysi Cochin on 8 Apr 2013
Commented: Michael on 18 Nov 2020
i saved my output in txt file.....
myOutput = Image Processing is interesting
i wanted to display the word "Process" in green color and the remaining words in black color itself....
i found a link in which we can format the text in different ways....
but in all those examples we give the full text to change color... but i want only a portion of the text to change its color...
if found the starting position of Process and the position upto which i want to change color... but i dont know how to keep the other text colors black and "Process" only green...... please can someone help me solve it.... i need the output to be displayed either in command window or txt file.... but the only thing is the change in color shud be there.....please do reply....

Accepted Answer

Cedric
Cedric on 8 Apr 2013
Edited: Cedric on 8 Apr 2013
Use a combination of FPRINTF and CPRINTF, without outputting CR/LF before the "final" end of line.
>> fprintf('This is a ') ; cprintf('_red', 'colorful ') ; fprintf('example!\n') ;
but be aware that CPRINTF is rather slow.
>> tic ; for k = 1:1e2, fprintf('.') ; end ; fprintf('\n') ; toc
....................... ..
Elapsed time is 0.001758 seconds.
>> tic ; for k = 1:1e2, cprintf('_red', '.') ; end ; fprintf('\n') ; toc
....................... ..
Elapsed time is 1.458687 seconds.

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 8 Apr 2013
I know this isn't what you want, but in case others want to know how to "burn" colored text into images, see this link : http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/38721-embed-text-and-graphics-in-an-image

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