Re: troubles &

[Aharon Robbins]

Hi. I think this is some kind of quoting problem. You can try putting a \
in front of the & and see if that helps.  Alternatively, put the text
of the program into a file and run it with `gawk -f', which should avoid
the problem entirely.

Also, 3.1.3 is quite old; the current version is 3.1.6.

Thanks,

Arnold

> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:22:06 +0100
> From: "leopoldo tosi" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: troubles &
> Cc: address@hidden
>
> 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;
>
> here an exaple it works :
> echo daabaaaa | gawk "{ str = $1 ; sub( /a+/ , \"C*C\" , str ) ; print str }"
>
> could you help me, please?
> -- 
>
> cordiali saluti,
>                    leopoldo tosi
>                    tel. 346 3173582