AWK escaping input

Hi,

I have an awk program that throws errors when it hits special characters in the input file.

In PHP i would do a: addslashes($input)

Is there an equivalent in awk? How else can I escape special characters?

Thanks

Alba

There is no equivalent to the PHP addslashes()
function in awk/gawk/nawk.

In Unix the general rule is that a backslash i.e.
'\' is used to escape special characters and '\\'
protects the backslash character if necessary.

-F