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Afri

2004-06-09, 3:55 pm

Hi

I am trying to run gsub("\'", "", $0) within a Unix Posix shell script
and it fails even before awk kicks in.
So, how do I remove singles quotes from a data line?

Thanks
afri
Ed Morton

2004-06-09, 3:55 pm



Afri wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to run gsub("'", "", $0) within a Unix Posix shell script
> and it fails even before awk kicks in.
> So, how do I remove singles quotes from a data line?


gawk -vsq=' '{gsub(sq, "");print}'

Regards,

Ed.

> Thanks
> afri


Afri

2004-06-09, 3:55 pm

Ed Morton <morton@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote in message news:<ca77j9$h52@netnews.proxy.lucent.com>...[color=darkred]
> Afri wrote:
>
> gawk -vsq=' '{gsub(sq, "");print}'
>
> Regards,
>
> Ed.
>

PERFECT !!
Thank you very much.
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