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How to use awk instead of nawk?

Hi all,
I can run the following script using nawk..However, I find that teh server dun support nawk.. May I know how to change teh script to use awk such that it will work? Very urgent.. thx!

nawk 'BEGIN {FS=OFS=","}
NR==FNR{arr[$1]=$2;next}
$0 !~ "Documentation"{print $0;next}
{split($9,a,"-")}
a[3] in arr{$11=arr[a[3]]}1' $CONFIG_TXT $FILENAME > $OUTPUT

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use awk instead of nawk

Hi all,
In addition, if awk is used, bailing out msg is appeared.

awk: syntax error near line 2
awk: bailing out near line 2

Can someone pls kindly help?

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It would be easier if you post a sample of your input and the desired output.

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