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I would like to insert some special ASCII characters that I only know how to express as numbers. In Python I would for example be able to write the SYN control character as \x16 since 0x16 is SYN in ASCII. Can I do this in LIGO? I would also like to write \x0a (newline) as \n.

The official documentation for LIGO does not mention escape characters

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Yes, you can, using exactly the same syntax. For instance, in CameLIGO, you could write let x = Bytes.pack "toto\n\x53woo".

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  • Thanks! That's very useful, does any documentation about this exist? Perhaps it could be added to the official LIGO documentation I linked to above?
    – Thorkil Værge
    Sep 23, 2020 at 21:06
  • I don't think this answer is correct. I expect an output of 0a from this call (since the ASCII value of newline is 0x0a, but I get something different. ``` $ ligo interpret -s pascaligo 'Bytes.pack("\n")' 0x0501000000025c6e ```
    – Thorkil Værge
    Oct 16, 2020 at 14:24

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