c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -le "use strict; use warnings; use charnames qw(:full); ;; my $string = qq{123456\N{FS}}; { local $, = q( ); print unpack '(H2)*', $string; } " 31 32 33 34 35 36 1c #### c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -le "use strict; use warnings; use charnames qw(:full); ;; my $string = qq{123456\N{FS}}; print join ' ', unpack '(H2)*', $string; " 31 32 33 34 35 36 1c