Re: How to represent NBSP in gawk regex?

[david kerns]

from the gawk user manual, my interpretation is that gawk only accepts
UTF-8 encodings...
from https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00A0 the UTF-8 encoding of NBSP
is: 0xC2 0xA0

This seems to work for me:

gawk 'BEGIN { nbsp = "\xc2\xa0"; print "A" nbsp "Z"}'

(once you have the NBSP unicode in a var, you can substitute at will)



On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 7:11 PM Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to substitute an NBSP character in gawk. I am not sure how to
> enter such a Unicode character. Could anybody show me how to do it?
> Thanks.
>
> https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00A0
>
> --
> Regards,
> Peng
>
>