What are these "\002", "\252" I'm observing when debbuging?

[Léa Massiot]

Hello,

Thank you for reading my post and sorry for the lame thread title.

I am manipulating bytes arrays like for instance:

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char bytesArray[10];

When I debug my code and visualize the contents of such an array using the C::B "Watch" functionality, I observe such "things" as:
"\002", "\252", etc.

If I do a:

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printf("B0 = %x\n", bytesArray[i] & 0xff);
where i is the index of the char "\252" in bytesArray,
I get AA₁₆ which is what I'm expecting.

Yet, I don't understand what is this "\252" code. What is it?
Given such a "code", how can I manually get the corresponding hexadecimal and even binary form?
I there a table somewhere? Does this table have a name?

Thank you for helping.
Best regards.

[Léa Massiot]

This is octal notation.

Best regards.

[Freem]

If you use watches, you can "convert" it to hexadecimal or decimal in it's properties. (right click on the watch, properties, then specify something in format)

[Léa Massiot]

All right!
Very good. Thank you