I have a bytes parameter which i printout in the terminal using the DebugString
method of the protobuf message of which the parameter is a member.
After writing three bytes to the parameter i was expecting something like this:
my_parameter: "\62\364\166"
Where all bytes are written one by one as octal numbers.
This is what i get:
my_parameter: "2\364v"
I cannot even tell what i'm looking at. How many bytes are there in my parameter? What values have been written to it?
I use C++ if that matters.
It seems that all values that are printable (32..127) in the ASCII table are printed as characters, and all other values are printed as /octal, meaning the slash is some kind of escape for a non-printable character. Makes sense (if you don't mind the characters).