From: Bruce Ellis <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] how to output NUL byte from awk?
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:36:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJQxxwmj4013CG2L=PAiZQf-Rrkv0L6==CFB7jzxZLwmfSYxRg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130918092421.3ab18d46@Khezzara>
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spot on. that's why:
printf "%c", 0
works, move on now.
On 18 September 2013 17:24, Florian Limberger
<flo@snakeoilproductions.net>wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:47:17 +0200
> dexen deVries <dexen.devries@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > awk(1) says, ``[s]tring constants are quoted " ", with the usual C
> > escapes recognized within.'', but \0 seems to terminate internal
> > string reprezentation...
> >
> > so how do i output a real NUL byte?
>
> I know this is not very constructive and may seem like a dumb question,
> but isn’t \0 the end marker for C strings? So this behaviour might be
> expected?
>
>
> -flo
>
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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
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 [this message]
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