string.byte: How do I make an encoder function?

I'm trying to make a function with the command bar that encodes characters into byte and then implements the backslash so I can copy it for use in a script. For example:

Encode("ab")

would print "\97\98"

I almost had when I figured out that doing

print("\\98")

would print "\98", but I implement that into the function, and it calls an error for an unfinished string. Here's the code I tried:

function Encode(str)  final = [[]]  sub = ""  for i = 1, string.len(str) do  sub = "\"..string.sub(str, i, i)  final = final..sub  end  print(final)  end

Is there a way to make a function that does what I want?

function Encode(str)  final = [[]]  sub = ""  for i = 1, string.len(str) do  sub = "\""..string.sub(str, i, i)  final = final..sub  end  print(final)  end

That should fix it, the operator suggests that the string wasn't finished so a ["] should fix it.

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