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Re: [bug-gawk] How to unescape a string?
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Lorenz |
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Re: [bug-gawk] How to unescape a string? |
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Wed, 24 Oct 2018 05:54:01 +0000 |
david kerns wrote:
>I was hoping this would, but it doesn't .. perhaps it will spur someone
>else :/
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>awk 'BEGIN { a ="a\\\\b\\\""; print a; gensub(/\\(.)/, "\1", "g", a); print
>a }'
>a\\b\"
>a\\b\"
in contrast to sub and gsub, gensub does not manipulate the source but
returns the modified string.
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Lorenz