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WoodyWeaver has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

using Data::Dump qw(dump) a field inside of a dumped variable reads

"\n\3\36\25"

I think this is four characters, and the \36 for example refers to the ascii character chr(30)? (This is supposed to be an octet stream corresponding to an IP address of 10.3.30.21.)

I don't understand the \36 notation. Can someone provide a clue?