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Old 08-24-2011
Bug How to specify a FS as HEX value in AWK
Hi All,

I have one input file seperated with Hex decimal B1 value.
And i want to process this file. And iam creating an awk script to process this file. How can I specify the Field seperator as HEX B1 in my awk.
Please help.

Thanks in advance.Smilie
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Old 08-24-2011
Depends on what your system and your shell are. What are they?

In some shells:

Code:
awk -v FS=$'\xb1' ...

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Old 08-24-2011
When the value of FS is more than one character, AWK interprets it as a regular expression. AWK regular expressions support an octal escape sequence. If you can convert to octal, the following should work portably: awk -F'\261' ...

(base 16) B1 == (base 8) 261

Regards,
Alister
 
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