in reply to concatenate a non-printable character onto an ascii string and inspect the content

You can also use Devel::Peek for inspecting the contents of any perl value: 
use Devel::Peek;

Dump(pack('a*','123456') . pack('a', 0x1c));

Dump(pack('a*','123456') . pack('a', "\x1c"));

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