From: Luis Parravicini <lparravi@...>
Date: 2007-09-12T20:46:27+09:00
Subject: Re: what is this syntax: \001\002 ?

On 9/12/07, 7stud -- <dolgun@excite.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On p. 131-132 in "Programming Ruby 2d.", it talks about writing binary
> data to files, but there's no explanation of the syntax:
>
> str1 = "\001\002\003"
>
> I looked in the index of the book, I poured over "The Ruby Language"
> chapter, and I also couldn't find any escape character that was "\0".
> Is that Ruby's unicode syntax?

Hi
That's the way of expressing octal numbers.


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