Using Hobbit icons inside your status messages

This is how hobbit reports statuses( mostly ), so it makes it easier to make your checks & alert scripts more generic.

to grab status messages ( perl ):

foreach $line ( split($ENV{BBALPHAMSG},'\n') ) {
    if ( /^&(yellow|red|purple)/ ) {
          # do whatever with $line
    }
}


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Hubbard, Greg L wrote:

&green, etc

    *From:* Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:user-68874b735d77@xymon.invalid]
    *Sent:* Wednesday, June 06, 2007 4:15 PM
    *To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
    *Subject:* [hobbit] Using Hobbit icons inside your status messages

    Is there some "officially condoned" method to get Hobbit icons
    into your status messages?
         Back when using Big Brother, I would just add something like:

<IMG SRC=/gifs/green.gif ALT=green HEIGHT=16 WIDTH=16 BORDER=0> 
to the status message.  I'm sure something similar would work for Hobbit too. 
I was just wondering if there was some built-in auto substitution in Hobbit that would be cleaner.  Maybe like putting " __GREEN__" inside the status message.