Want to create a string with control characters

[Smaran]

Hi Everybody,
I want to create a string(message) which will have
control characters, including line feed (^J) also. And wants to write the message to the socket.
Can nyone help me in this regard ?

Thanks in advance

[John Poff]

Hi,

This sounds like a job for a Perl script.

JP

[Smaran]

My purpose is to crete a mesge and write that mesage directly into the socket which will have
control char.
Can u explain how to do it ?

[Bill Costigan]

You can echo using octal numbers for the control characters,

'Hello There' would be

echo "Hello \0015\0012 There"