Re: [bug-gawk] How to print an unsigned char?

[Peng Yu]

Is there a way to make this happen inside awk code instead of doing
via an environment variable?

On 2/19/19, david kerns <address@hidden> wrote:
> it's dependent on your locale
>
> $ unset LC_ALL
> $ gawk 'BEGIN { printf("%c", 137) }' | xxd
> 0000000: c289                                     ..
> $ export LC_ALL=C
> $ gawk 'BEGIN { printf("%c", 137) }' | xxd
> 0000000: 89                                       .
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 1:42 PM Peng Yu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 137 is printed as two characters. Is there a way to print a single
>> character corresponding the number 137 as in C?
>>
>> $ awk 'BEGIN { printf("%c", 137) }' | xxd
>> 00000000: c289
>>
>> #include <stdio.h>
>>
>> int main() {
>>         printf("%c", 137);
>>         return 0;
>> }                            ..
>>
>> $ ./main.exe |xxd
>> 00000000: 89                                       .
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peng
>>
>>
>


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Regards,
Peng