I'm looking for a method to convert newline-type characters to their octal forms. I've figured out how to get the hex representation:

perl -E 'say unpack "H*", "\r\n";'

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...but I'd like to get this as "015012" as opposed to "0d0a".

I've been searching on and off today, testing with sprintf, oct and a myriad of other things, but I'm not familiar with this type of transormation (the above unpack was something unrelated I found online... I've never used or have needed to use pack before).

I'd like to point out that I'm not trying to ask "what is a better regex" or "should I use this or this" (so things like tye's Re: \r\n vs \012\015 (tye) aren't really relevant), and this isn't an XY Problem, I just am curious as to how it's done, regardless of need or use case.

-stevieb

In reply to Transforming "\r\n" to '\012\015' by stevieb

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