RE: Creating strings of binary zero characters

[pjfarley3]

Thanks, John, that's also the solution I experimented with and it works.

Peter

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> From: J Naman <jnaman2@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 5:15 PM
> Subject: RE: Creating strings of binary zero characters
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> n=72; # arbitrary n
> z=sprintf("%0*d",n,0); # pad w/ character zeros gsub(/0/, "\x00", z); # 
> convert
> - john naman