Re: [Help-bash] Expand a prompt string to calculate its length?

[Jesse Hathaway]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 1:33 PM Greg Wooledge <address@hidden> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:18:29AM -0700, Andy Chu wrote:
> > The @P techniques works if you don't have color in your prompt.  If you
> > have colors I'm not sure there's a way to do it in general.
>
> If the prompt has colors or other terminal escape sequences, then the
> question "calculate its length" is ambiguous at best.  Does the OP want
> the byte length for storage, or the visible character length for
> display width?

I was hoping for the visible character length.