hello everybody I am using net::telnet to connect to a server and I need to send control-X to the server, if I monitor the telnet session I can see that when control-X is pressed, hex 18 is sent to the server, I have not been able to get my script to send this, if I try 0x18, it is automatically converted to decimal 24 and '24' is sent, if I try '0x18', then that is literally sent, I have tried sending '\4' and this correctly sends the control-d character, but if I send '\24' then again '24' is sent, I have also tried '\cX', (from regexp \c meaning control character) but no go, could somebody please kindly point me to the solution to this rather stoopid problem, thank you

In reply to sending control characters by Anonymous Monk

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