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From: me@cbnewsh.att.com (william.j.bruncati)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Awk question
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.164243.11804@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 18 Jan 91 16:42:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I am having a problem with an awk program.
What I'm trying to do is have an array element
match on a pattern in the first field. 
I can match on the fixed string
but not the pattern. Can anyone help?

This works.
		if (myarray[i] == $1 )
			print $0

This doesn't work. It won't give me a match although there is one.
		if (myarray[i] ~ /$1/ )
			print $0

Also, while I'm posting, could someone tell me if it's possible
to have  nested case statements in shell?

					Thanks in advance,
						Bill Bruncati