Might try a Single Quote ( ' ) or a backslash-Single Quote ( \' )... if
that works you could use a Double Single Quote to give the illusion of a
Double Quote maybe... Just a thought.



Good luck !!



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From: geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of spillikinaerospace
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 10:29 PM
To: geeksthatgawk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Geeks that Gawk] mawk: print command with special characters?



Hi,
can someone help me with this?
i want the print command to print a double quote mark as part of a
string. mawk won't have it. a double quote is a control character and
mawk will be damned if it's gonna let me treat it like a regular
character.

i wanna change this:

jack spratt could
eat no fat

to this:

jack " spratt could
eat " no fat

and i wanna do it on the command line. something like this:

mawk "{ print $1, [some expression that mawk will recognize as a
quote], $2, $3}" input.txt > output.txt

i've tried *everything*. \", \\", \\\", "\"", /\"/, \x22, "\x22" .....
any combination you could possibly think of. i've read whatever
references i could find. nothing works.

anybody out there who's been there and done that?

thanx, mike




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