Neophyte awk question(s)

[Henry Spencer]

> use something like:  printf "%c", 1.  However, this is often awkward.

Hm, one learns something every day.  How embarrassing, since my posting
to the net on the subject said it couldn't be done...

On inspection of the code, awk's %c takes the argument as a number (if
possible, otherwise you get nothing printed), converts it to an int, and
feeds that to the C %c.  By accident, the experiments I did with %c all
ran afoul of the value not being a number.

My general comment "awk is not C" stands, however.  Try using %u and
you'll see what I mean...
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