code for control+...?

[Jorge Almeida]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Chris Kassopulo wrote:

>  > Jorge Almeida <jalmeida at math.ist.utl.pt>  wrote:
>  > Sorry for the probably stupid question, but it's killing me...
>  > I need to write a expect script where the pressing of the control key+
>  > something needs to be detected. The man page has an example
>  > 	set CTRLZ \032
>  > where the code \032 corresponds to Control-Z. Now, how can I know the
>  > codes corresponding to other combinations (e.g. Control-space)? 
>  > TIA,
>  > 
>  
> Greetings,
>  
> Get yourself an ascii table.  Here's a pretty one but you can google
> for others if you like.
> 
> http://www.mindspring.com/~joeja/programs.html#PHP
> 
> The first column shows the control codes produced by the alpha keys
> in the third column.  The keys in the second column don't produce
> control codes.  The lowercase keys either don't produce control codes
> or produce the same codes as the uppercase key.  I'm not sure which.
> 
> For example, the Z key (132 octal) produces the SUB control character
> (032 octal).

Thank you for the tip. I didn't know what kind of code I was looking
for. The link above doesn't tell me how to get Control-A (for example),
but I found it here:
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/computing/ascii+character+table

Regards,

Jorge Almeida