Case-insensitive serach with awk

acheepi · #1 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005

Is there any way to do case insensitive search with awk for the below statement:

month1=`awk '/month/' ${trgfile} | cut -d"=" -f2`

the "month" could come as Month, mOnth,MONTH etc. in a file.

Now I am looking for "month"....

Thanks,
AC

rockytriton · #2 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005

if you are using gawk, you can set IGNORECASE=1 first. Other than that I would say do a google search, there are some ways to do it, but it's not as easy as passing -i to grep.

vgersh99 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by acheepi

Is there any way to do case insensitive search with awk for the below statement:

month1=`awk '/month/' ${trgfile} | cut -d"=" -f2`

the "month" could come as Month, mOnth,MONTH etc. in a file.

Now I am looking for "month"....

Thanks,
AC

month1=`awk 'tolower($0) ~ /month/' ${trgfile} | cut -d"=" -f2`

acheepi · #4 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005

Thanks a lot for the reply. It works!

rockytriton · #5 (**permalink**) 07-15-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by vgersh99

month1=`awk 'tolower($0) ~ /month/' ${trgfile} | cut -d"=" -f2`

nice, I didn't know that worked on a regular expression.

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