Re: [TCLUG:10162] awk syntax help needed

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 02:50:39PM -0800, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> >	As it is, I think you're missing "'s around the argument to the
> >system command.  I'm guessing that your command should look like this:
> >system("cp /from/this/dir/" + $1 + ".ext /home/here/")
>         I thought I had tried that; but with single quotes. <shrug>
>         turns out the command I wanted was:
> system("cp /from/this/dir/"$1".ext /home/here/")

	It wouldn't work with single quotes.  awk is not like the shell,
or perl in that regard.  awk string constants bear a much greater
syntactic resemblence to C string constants.

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