console text colors??

is there a way to change the text colors in the console

For a windows machine.......look up the SetConsoleTextAttribute() API function on MSDN....

textcolor(RED); // For Red
textcolor(GREEN); // For Green

what do I need to include?

It depends on what your compiler is, I'm not sure about the others, but in dev-cpp it is <conio.c>

Just as Fordy stated...simply include windows.h and use this:

Code:

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SetConsoleTextAttribute( GetStdHandle(
                                        STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE ),
                                        FOREGROUND_RED );

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Experiment :D also FOREGROUND_BLUE, FOREGROUND_GREEN.