Hey Guys, thanks for the suggestions.

Is there a way to print out a string, and in the terminal have it show any special characters (i.e. \n, \t, \s, etc...)

For Example: I have a variable like this:

#This variable is equal to the routers description which is a single s
+tring that when printed prints into 3 separate lines
my $descr = split " STRING: " `snmpget -v1 -c public 10.1.1.1 sysDescr
+.0`

print "$descr";

____OUTPUT____
Cisco IOS Software, Catalyst 4500 L3 Switch Software (cat4500-ENTSERVI
+CESK9-M), Version 12.2(31)SGA9, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport
Copyright (c) 1986-2009 by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Mon 12-Jan-09 13:53
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So is there a way to print out $sysDescr and have it actually print the special character symbols...? I want to see what meta-characters are actually in there.
Something like this:

Cisco IOS Software, Catalyst 4500 L3 Switch Software (cat4500-ENTSERVI
+CESK9-M), Version 12.2(31)SGA9, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)\n
Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport\n
Copyright (c) 1986-2009 by Cisco Systems, Inc.\n
Compiled Mon 12-Jan-09 13:53\n
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Any thoughts would be great.


Thanks,
Matt

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