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Re: [Geeks that Gawk] mawk: print command with special characters?

thanx, but no luck yet

>
> 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.

Wed Jul 5, 2006 4:19 pm

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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...	spillikinaerospace spillikinaer...	Jul 5, 2006 3:47 am
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...	Stout, Danny dasthcc	Jul 5, 2006 2:18 pm
Try this (use \\\") gawk "BEGIN {print \"\\\"hello\\\"\"}" "hello" I tested it on Windows XP running win32 port gawk 3.1.3 from...	Ambrosio Berdijo aberdijo	Jul 5, 2006 3:18 pm
... HASTA LA VISTA *BABY* that was my silver bullet! i tried variants on what you wrote and finally stumbled on the solution: i did: mawk "{print $1,...	spillikinaerospace spillikinaer...	Jul 6, 2006 12:16 pm
Mike... what would happen if you did a: gawk "{print 'word' }" or gawk "{print \"word\" }" (the idea being for the command line interpreter to know what double...	Stout, Danny dasthcc	Jul 6, 2006 12:38 pm
... BINGO!!! that did the trick. i suppose with mawk there's just alot of guesswork involved. oh well, i got done what i wanted to get done. thanks Danny...	spillikinaerospace spillikinaer...	Jul 7, 2006 4:21 am
Kindly help me anybody!!!! how to create an index file? pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese Ambrosio Berdijo <aberdijo@...> wrote:...	ylng naghems	Aug 6, 2006 12:37 pm
thanx, but no luck yet...	spillikinaerospace spillikinaer...	Jul 6, 2006 7:18 pm
Hi frenz How to create index file in gawk? am unable to do this...... If I use sorting and grepping it is taking lot of time. Please anybody help me. and do...	ylng naghems	Jul 8, 2006 4:15 pm

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