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Return a null‐terminated string consisting of all characters in the category `CNTRL` (i.e., `[0‐37]` and `177`), ordered by increasing character codes. Note that this string, if printed, may appear to be of length 0 because the `NULL` character is part of the set and appears first.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlb_chartype.h>`

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static
char const*
stringCntrl();
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