>Any of the luminaries out there know how to get 'awk' (not nawk) to ouput a >single-quote character ( ascii 0x27 ). sq = sprintf("%c",39) print sq -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade | bzs at world.std.com 1330 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 | {xylogics,uunet}world!bzs