Adding " to each end of a field in an awk print statement 1

[RaoulZa]

Can anybody tell me the correct character to use so that i can change data from non quotes to quotes please?

For example

12345,abcde,12346 to "12345","abcde","12346"

i thought it would be \" but its telling me its not correctly parsed


thanks very much

 

[CaKiwi]

Use "\042" e.g.

BEGIN {FS=","}
{
print "\042" $1 "\042" "," "\042" $2 "\042" "," "\042" $3 "\042"
} CaKiwi

 

[olded]

Hi:

This works on my Solaris 7 box:


echo "111,abc,222"|awk ' BEGIN { FS="," ; OFS=","}
{
for (i=1; i<=NF; i++)
$i=&quot;\&quot;&quot;$i&quot;\&quot;&quot;

print $0
}

 

[RaoulZa]

Thanks very much both of you.

Before i got the answers along I decided to do it the long winded way, and output tilders around the fields, converting them to quotes using sed &quot;s /\~/\&quot;/g&quot;.

But my thanks again for your help.