i'm new to shell scripting and have a problem please help me

in the script i have a nawk block which has a variable count

nawk{
.
.
.
count=count+1
print count

}

now i want to access the value of the count variable outside the awk block,like..
(m is a shell variable )

i came across how to access shell variables inside the awk block,but is it possible to access the values of awk variables outside the awk block?

please help me
thanks in advance.