[GnuWin32-Users] [gnuwin32 - Help] RE: if (substr($1, 1, 3) == "123")...

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By: mz2ptc0

<quote>I kept thinking, What am I escaping from? If it's not too much bother,
Why don't I need the escape back slashes for numerics?
</quote>
If you read the manual, numeric constants and string constants are treated
differently. If you wanted '123' to be treated as a character string it should
be enclosed in single or double quotes in the text file. Awk assumes that 123
without quotes is a decimal number.

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