bug-gnu-utils
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: gawk "\\" "(" strange behavior ...


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: gawk "\\" "(" strange behavior ...
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 11:50:46 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux)

Jeff Chua <address@hidden> writes:

> this doesn't ...
> echo "\\" | awk '{print $0; gsub("\\", "b"); print $0;}'

Here you have two levels of quoting (string and regexp) which both use the
same quoting character, thus you have to quote twice to get a single
backslash.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, address@hidden
SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."




reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]