Re: troubles &

[Manuel Collado]

leopoldo tosi escribió:
> hi,
> I 've got somes troubles with this code
>
> echo daabaaaa | gawk "{ str = $1 ; sub( /a+/ , \"C&C\" , str ) ; print str }"
> gawk: cmd. line:1: { str = $1 ; sub( /a+/ , "C
> gawk: cmd. line:1:                          ^ unterminated string
>
> and others uses of this character '&'.
>
> I work with GNU Awk 3.1.3  of UnxUtils on xp sp2 con path:....
> C:\Documents and Settings\danilo\Documenti\my_proces\UnxUtils\usr\local\bin;
> C:\Documents and Settings\danilo\Documenti\my_proces\UnxUtils\usr\local\lib;

This is not a gawk issue, but a Windows shell issue. The & character is 
a command separator. It must be escaped as ^& in order to be parsed by 
cmd.exe as a plain character in the command line.

> here an exaple it works :
> echo daabaaaa | gawk "{ str = $1 ; sub( /a+/ , \"C*C\" , str ) ; print str }"

Of course, it has not & chars.

> could you help me, please?

Ditto.
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