How do I print a single quote in AWK?
Devon Tuck
tuck at iris.ucdavis.edu
Thu Mar 8 09:58:16 AEST 1990
Here is a question for those of you out there who are familiar with 'awk':
I am having difficulties getting a single quote (') printed. I have tried
using the printf, and print commands, as well as the sprintf() built-in.
The following is an example program which works, but does not print the
single quotes. Intuitively, I would think that line 3 could be:
printf "%-72sX\n"," INCLUDE '"(name = substr($0, 8, 6))".h'"
and that should do the trick -- but it doesn't :-(
##########################################################################
# Description: AWK program to change
#
#|$ADD C.NAME
#
# to ...
#
#|C$ADD C.NAME HM
#| INCLUDE 'NAME.h' X
#
# Note: the '|' is the beginning of a line of code in Fortran 77 and the
# letters to the right of the screen exist as flags in the 'safe' 73-80
# columns of a traditional fortran program.
##########################################################################
awk '/\$ADD C\./ {
printf "%-72sHM\n","C"$1" "$2;
printf "%-72sX\n"," INCLUDE "(name = substr($0, 8, 6))".h"
}
{
# If there was no change, print out the line.
print
}' awktest
Thanks for your help,
Devon (tuck at ucdavis.edu)
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