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How to escape single quote ??
That's brilliant! It works. I like how efficient your suggestion is. I guess you must be writing awk code more than 2-3 lines every 2 years :-) Thanks again! nnxx -
How to escape single quote ??
Hi PH, Thanks for your suggestions. I don't know if its my gawk version (3.1.1), but neither approach is working for me. Anyway, I'll spend some more time debugging this. Thanks again. Nitin. -
How to escape single quote ??
Hi PHV, Thanks for the quick response. My usage is pretty simple, maybe too simple. I have the following in a text file and I simply run it from cmd line... gawk '{if(substr($0,1,1)=="c") {gsub(/out/, "\'", $0); print $0;} else print }' infile > outfile How can -f help ? Thanks! nnxx -
How to escape single quote ??
Hello experts, Any idea how to substitute a character with a single quote "'" in awk ? If I use gsub, for example .. gsub(/out/, "in", $0) this replaces "out" with "in". But if I want to replace "out" with "'" instead, it obviously gives an error since it thinks its EOF. I've tried...
