How does awk match a pattern composed of variables and strings?
For example,

VAR=hello
awk '/VAR world/' VAR=$VAR
does not work.

James

"James" <hslee911@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> How does awk match a pattern composed of variables and strings?
> For example,
>
> VAR=hello
> awk '/VAR world/' VAR=$VAR
> does not work.

awk '/'"$VAR"' world/'

See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/fa...ection-12.html .


Regards
Dimitre

On 25 Aug 2006 11:21:44 -0700, James
<hslee911@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How does awk match a pattern composed of variables and strings?
> For example,
>
> VAR=hello
> awk '/VAR world/' VAR=$VAR
> does not work.
>
awk '$0~VAR " world"' VAR=$VAR



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Radoulov, Dimitre wrote:

> "James" <hslee911@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1156530103.897045.307360@i42g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com...
>
>>How does awk match a pattern composed of variables and strings?
>>For example,
>>
>>VAR=hello
>>awk '/VAR world/' VAR=$VAR
>>does not work.
>
>
> awk '/'"$VAR"' world/'
>
> See http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/fa...ection-12.html .
>

Don't do that. Do this:

awk -v var="$VAR" '$0 ~ var " world"'

See http://home.comcast.net/~j.p.h/cus-faq-2.html#24.

Ed.