How to colorise PowerShell output of Format-Table

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I try to colorise the column RAM in red if the value is greater than 100 MB:

Get-Process | Format-Table @{ Label = "PID"; Expression={$_.Id}},
            @{ Label = "Name"; Expression={$_.Name}},
            @{ Label = "RAM (MB)"; Expression={[System.Math]::Round($_.WS/1MB, 1)}},
            @{ Label = "Responding"; Expression={$_.Responding}}

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I try with Write-Host -nonewline, but the result is wrong.

Get-Process | Format-Table @{ Label = "PID"; Expression={$_.Id}},
            @{ Label = "Name"; Expression={$_.Name}},
            @{ Label = "RAM (MB)"; Expression={write-host -NoNewline $([System.Math]::Round($_.WS/1MB, 1)) -ForegroundColor red}},
            @{ Label = "Responding"; Expression={ write-host -NoNewline $_.Responding -fore red}}

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6 Answers
user_19110820

Yes, you can use ANSI Escape colors and have the colors conditional:

Get-Process | Format-Table @{ Label = "PID"; Expression={$_.Id}},
        @{ Label = "Name"; Expression={$_.Name}},
        @{ Label = "RAM (MB)"; Expression={if($_.WS/1MB -gt 100){"$([char]27)[0;31m$([System.Math]::Round($_.WS/1MB, 1))$([char]27)[0m"}else{"$([char]27)[0;32m$([System.Math]::Round($_.WS/1MB, 1))$([char]27)[0m"}}},
        @{ Label = "Responding"; Expression={if($_.Responding -eq $true){"$([char]27)[0;32m$($_.Responding)$([char]27)[0m"}else{"$([char]27)[0;31m$($_.Responding)$([char]27)[0m"}}}
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