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Old 05-13-2012
perl awk system quote probems
Hey guys,

I'm having some issues escaping quotes and getting the following line to run in perl. The quotes are really messing me up.

Code:
system (" awk 'BEGIN{FS="/t";OFS=","} {print \$1,$fieldNum}' $file > output.csv ");

Last edited by WongSifu; 05-13-2012 at 04:22 PM.. Reason: syntax error in first post
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Old 05-13-2012
Hi WongSifu,

Are you executing a system instruction in a perl script to run an awk comand? What a mess!!

For some help, in perl you can substitute double-quotes with qq and single-quotes with q.

No difference between:
Code:
print "Now\n";

and
Code:
print qq[Now\n];

And the same for single-quotes.

EDIT to say that you can also substitute system with qx[...] with similar result.
 
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