Pass Hex String to DLL

Hello there,
I have a Visual Studio compiled DLL that expects the following:
CHAR command[] = {0xAA, 0xBB, 0xCC, 0xDD, 0xEE, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06};
How do I express this as a TS Local? Can I express this a String as "0xAA, 0xBB, 0xCC, 0xDD, 0xEE, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x01, 0x02, 0x03, 0x04, 0x05, 0x06" or do I need to segment and convert each char in the string - this would seem laborious.
And yes... I'm rusty!
-Chroma

Thanks for the reply! I tried your original suggestion, with the local being set in a statement. On calling my DLL via Visual Studio, the following buffer was passed (see attached .jpg):
IN
Locals.string = "\xAA\xBB\xCC\xDD\xEE\xFF\x00\x01\x02\x03\x04\x05\x06"
OUT (Visual Studio DLL source)
aa bb cc dd ee ff 5c 78 30 31 02 03 04 05 06
It's interesting to note that the "\" and "x" chars have been added in and the "\x00" and "\x01" have not been correctly converted. I tried the different command string, which is more representative of our application (see attached .jpg):
IN
Locals.string2 = "\x03\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x05\x00\x05\x03\x00\x01\x00"
OUT (Visual Studio DLL source)
03 5c 78 30 30 5c 78 30 30 5c 78 30 35 5c 78 30 35 03 5c 78 30 31 00
It looks like this approach perhaps(?) highlights an issue with TS, when a "\x00" is encountered. On another note, I think the array of numbers to a string example is useful but thinking this through, I believe we'll be using the Property Loader to bring in the locals as strings.
Any other thoughts?
Regards,
-Chroma
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