Re: \x and strings

"Martin Richter [MVP]" <martin.richter@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hallo John Carson!
>
>> "Martin Richter [MVP]" <martin.richter@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:d3laie$d1s$1@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>>
>>> If it is a non-unicode string
>>> a\x01bc
>>> will do it.
>>>
>>> If it is a unicode string use
>>> a\x001bc
>>
>>
>>
>> Have you tried compiling this? (It doesn't compile for me.)
>
> No. I am sorry about the wrong infos.
>
> I just read the docs. And I thought that the parser stopped after 2 or 3
> chars, becuase the docuemntation should explicitly 2 and 3 chars after \x.
> In fact it parses all chars unti it find a character not matching the
> sequence and this causes an overflow.
> So the only way is what John Carson wrote.
>


The escape sequence for embedded bytes is three characters following the \x
so your "unicode" example is the correct way for non-unicode strings,
a\x001bc will work properly for single byte characters.

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