How to print a certain text in colour in C

Question

Is there anyway to make a printf and have only a certain part of the text displayed in the console in colour?

For example, let's say I'm about to print:

printf("a b c");

Is there anyway to print only one of those letters in colour? Can I have an output in the Windows console that only displays one of them in colour? If so, how should I do it and what library should I use?

see this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3219393/stdlib-and-colored-output-in-c — kapil, Dec 11 '15 at 04:40
@kapil, op wants it in windows console.The link which you gave is for Unix systems. — zwarrior, Dec 11 '15 at 04:44
@JoelFloresSottile check this. I am not sure whether it will work. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8765938/colorful-text-using-printf-in-c — zwarrior, Dec 11 '15 at 04:46
If the above one doesn't work, check this. http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/17822-print-certain-text-in-color/ — zwarrior, Dec 11 '15 at 04:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '15 at 07:06

You could use windows console API, for example the function SetConsoleTextAttribute():

#include <windows.h>
...
   SetConsoleTextAttribute(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE),
                        BACKGROUND_INTENSITY|FOREGROUND_BLUE);

You would have to make such kind of calls to set attributes every time you want to change them before doing the printf(). But be careful: this function is specific to windows and not portable.

How to print a certain text in colour in C

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