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In article <166 at omaha1.UUCP> wcc at omaha1.UUCP (William C Carey) writes:
>
>Any of the luminaries out there know how to get 'awk' (not nawk) to ouput a
>single-quote character ( ascii 0x27 ).  I can't get the 'print' or
>


Here's an example that should get you in the right direction:

awk 'BEGIN { 
	SQ = sprintf("%c", 39);
	DQ = sprintf("%c", 34);
}
{
	printf("%cHow is this?%c\n", DQ, DQ);
	printf("%cAnd this?%c\n", SQ, SQ);
}


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