On Tuesday 17 of September 2013 14:03:11 Kurt H Maier wrote: > Quoting dexen deVries <dexen.devr...@gmail.com>: > > 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? > > Does printf not do this?
thanks i feel really dumb now ;-) -- dx
