How do you print a single quote character in AWK

Shell Programming and Scripting
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How do you print out a single quote character in AWK? Using the escape character does not seem to work.

{printf  "%1$s %2$s%3$s%2$s\n" , "INCLUDE", " \' ", "THIS"  }

does not work. Any suggestions?

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awk -v qt="'" ' {printf  "%1$s %2$s%3$s%2$s\n" , "INCLUDE", " " qt " ", "THIS"  } '
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{printf  "%1$s %2$s%3$s%2$s\n" , "INCLUDE", " \x27 ", "THIS"  }
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Thanks for the response worked well. What type of chacter identification is \x27?

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27 is the Ascii value of single quote.

\x Escape sequence

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27 is ASCII code in hex for '.

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awk '{printf  "%1$s %2$s%3$s%2$s\n" , "INCLUDE", " '"'"' ", "THIS" }'