(Perhaps the title does not make sense... please bear with me)

Short version of a much longer problem: I'd like to print out a list of all the special characters that can be represented by "\277" or "CNTL-q-2-7-7" if you use emacs. In particular, I'm looking for a clever way to mess with those damn Windows smart quotes, but there are other concerns as well.

So I tried variations of the following: 
foreach ( 0200 .. 0377 ) {
    printf FILE "%d , %o , %x: " , $_ , $_ , $_;
    printf FILE "\cQ%o\n" , $_;
}

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The hope was that the second printf statement would effectively duplicate the emacs command, but alas...

Hopefully, I've overlooked something particularly simple. Appreciate any ideas you might have... and clarification of the problem might be possible if needed ;)

In reply to Printing octal characters by markguy

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