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Use Encode::Escape::ASCII. Under the hood it does the same, but your maintenance programmer gets a readable API and documentation.

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Re^2: C strings, unescaping of
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 30, 2013 at 15:46 UTC
    That package does not implement C-style escapes. The \v is missing. Furthermore, it looks rather suspect. Observe:
    $ echo -n 'v\v\134aa' | perl -e 'use Encode::Escape::ASCII; print deco
+de "ascii-escape", $_ for <>;' | hexdump -C
00000000  76 76 07 61                                       |vv.a|
00000004

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    This does not look right to me at all!

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