Escaping a variable in Groovy to show the ascii character in println?

edomingox · 04-24-2009, 09:36 AM

I'm trying to display all the ascii characters using the following code in Groovy:

Code:

def x = 0
while (x++ < 255)
{
   println "$x=\$x"
}

output:

Code:

1=$x 2=$x 3=$x 4=$x 5=$x 6=$x 7=$x 8=$x 9=$x 10=$x

I would like to escape the variable that way I don't have to write out this:

Code:

println "1=\01"
println "2=\02"
println "3=\03"
println "4=\04"
println "5=\05"
...

is there a way to make this work?

This is the output I would like:

Code:

1= 2= 3= 4= 5=

headrift · 04-25-2009, 07:24 PM

I don't know Groovy, but it sounds like you need an eval() statement in there.

Of course, it looks to be Java, so you could try calling toString() and seeing if that helps. *shrug*

Hope that gets you in the right direction.