Re: awk & escape character

Tom76 schrieb:
> how do i define an escape character in awk. i am using awk at the unix
> command line.
>
> cat a.list |awk 'BEGIN {} {a=a"'"$1"',"} END{print a }'
> ^
> ^
> |
> |
> I want to print the single quote within the double quote.
>
> i know this is off-topic, but most of us use awk one time or other. so
> thought to put it here. Thanks

may be you are looking for
cat a.list |awk 'BEGIN {} {a=a"\x27"$1"\x27,"} END

Best regards

Maxim Received on Wed May 25 2005 - 13:10:06 CDT