[bug-gawk] How not to escape sequence in awk? Or how to unescape sequence for awk?

[Peng Yu]

Hi,

I want awk to print '\<xyz\>'.

~$ awk -v "x='\<xyz\>'" 'BEGIN{print x}'
awk: warning: escape sequence `\<' treated as plain `<'
awk: warning: escape sequence `\>' treated as plain `>'
'<xyz>'

I could manually do the following, but when the string '\<xyz>\' is
generated from from another program. I'll have to either have a 3rd
program to unescape the sequence or have awk stop escaping. Does any
of the two exist?

~$ awk -v "x='\\\<xyz\\\>'" 'BEGIN{print x}'
'\<xyz\>'

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Regards,
Peng