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From: jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: 2.8BSD awk question:  Oooh, I get it!
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Date: Wed, 26-Nov-86 15:41:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 26 15:41:58 1986
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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Keywords: awk strings

I get it!  I answered my own question.

In awk, only fields are referred to with a leading $...
$0 is the whole line, $1 is field 1, and so on.
My variable was called "header", so the correct statement is

	print header

not

	print $header

I guess $header was being evaluated as $0, so the observed output makes sense.

I guess I get the Emily Litella award for today...  Never mind!
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