Plus sign replacement

[ediman4902]

I'm trying to substitute a plus sign (+) with another character but I can't seem to get it to work using GSUB. I am using the AWK95 version of AWK......thank you

 

[PHV]

Use \+

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[ediman4902]

I put this into my program but it gives me an error:

gsub(\+, " ", rectyp)
and also tried
gsub("\+", " ", rectyp)

All I'm trying to do is replace the plus sign with a space

 

[PHV]

I don't know awk95, but with a posix compliant awk flavor, the following should work:
gsub(/\+/, " ", rectyp)

BTW, but it gives me an error is not very informative, so, WHICH ERROR MESSAGE ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[feherke]

Hi

PHV, your code works in [tt]awk95[/tt] too :

[blue]master #[/blue] /cygdrive/f/Program\ Files/awk95.exe 'BEGIN{rectyp="*+-/";gsub(/\+/," ",rectyp);print rectyp}'
* -/

Code parameter kindly passed to [tt]awk95[/tt] by CygWin.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ediman4902]

Thank you all for the updates - it works to use the following in AWK95:

gsub(/\+/, " ", rectyp)