Try defining it in the FS variable in BEGIN{}, seems to work for me.

$ echo -e "ASD\xC2\xA0QWE\xC2\xA0JKL" | awk 'BEGIN{FS="\xC2\xA0"} {print $1}'
ASD


-Brad



On 08/30/2015 06:22 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
Hi All,

DuckDuckGo is failing me here.

I need to do a

    awk -F "two hex codes" '{print $1}'

The two hex codes are C2 and A0

What is the syntax to put them in the "-F"?

Many thanks,
-T

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