From: Kurt H Maier <khm@sciops.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to output NUL byte from awk?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:07:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130917190755.Horde.hC1rtvUyWEAln7yGFt2EGw7@ssl.eumx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1ad32e7589bccd0e90316978fcce125@ladd.quanstro.net>
Quoting erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>:
> On Tue Sep 17 10:04:20 EDT 2013, khm@sciops.net wrote:
>
> no, awk's printf does not do that:
> minooka; awk 'BEGIN{printf "%c", utf(0)}' | wc
not if you ask it to convert '0' to unicode and then covert
the unicode value to a char, no. I'm almost positive if you
tell it to cast 0 (the number) to char and print it, it will
give you a null byte.
khm
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-17 19:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-17 13:47 dexen deVries
2013-09-17 14:03 ` Kurt H Maier
2013-09-17 14:36 ` dexen deVries
2013-09-17 16:50 ` erik quanstrom
2013-09-17 17:12 ` dexen deVries
2013-09-17 18:55 ` dexen deVries
2013-09-17 19:07 ` Kurt H Maier [this message]
2013-09-17 19:21 ` cinap_lenrek
2013-09-17 17:50 ` arnold
2013-09-18 7:24 ` Florian Limberger
2013-09-18 7:36 ` Bruce Ellis
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