From bed0b6be151b2eafd03111cd3782e2672d193443 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kotfu <kotfu@kotfu.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 10:09:21 -0600
Subject: Create utils module for utility functions

---
 cmd2/utils.py | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 cmd2/utils.py

(limited to 'cmd2/utils.py')

diff --git a/cmd2/utils.py b/cmd2/utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..33215dc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd2/utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#
+# coding=utf-8
+"""Shared utility functions"""
+
+from . import constants
+
+def strip_ansi(text: str) -> str:
+    """Strip ANSI escape codes from a string.
+
+    :param text: string which may contain ANSI escape codes
+    :return: the same string with any ANSI escape codes removed
+    """
+    return constants.ANSI_ESCAPE_RE.sub('', text)
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