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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: variables in awk
Summary: you need nawk
Keywords: awk
Message-ID: <1914@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 21:54:10 GMT
References: <10029@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <10029@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, lang@sirius.PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang) writes:
> An AWK question for the resident wizards:
> Is there any way to do pattern-matching on an AWK variable?

You need nawk (the awk shipped with 5.3.2).  You can say:

BEGIN     { junk = "hi" }
$1 ~ junk { print "wow!" }

and it does what you expect (and want)
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Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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