Split string on a backslash (“\”) delimiter in awk?

Question

I am trying to split the string in a file based on some delimiter.But I am not able to achieve it correctly... Here is my code below.

awk \'var=split($2,arr,         


        

Answer 1

You don't need to call split. Just use \\ as field separator:

echo 'a\b\c\d' | awk -F\\ '{printf("%s,%s,%s,%s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4)}'

OUTPUT:

a,b,c,d