Back when I was using C a lot (before Unicode) strings were just arrays of char which are 8 bit unsigned integers.

So a 12 character string like "Hello world\n" is the 13 element array 72 101 108 108 111 32 119 111 114 108 100 10 0

The Linux ascii man page lists the C escape sequences: 

    007   7     07    BEL '\a' (bell)
    010   8     08    BS  '\b' (backspace)
    011   9     09    HT  '\t' (horizontal tab)
    012   10    0A    LF  '\n' (new line)
    013   11    0B    VT  '\v' (vertical tab)
    014   12    0C    FF  '\f' (form feed)
    015   13    0D    CR  '\r' (carriage ret)

Which are the same in Perl except for \v which Perl doesn't use.

Naked blocks are fun! -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: C style strings by jwkrahn
in thread C style strings by harangzsolt33

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