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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting use var in gsub of awk Post 302140600 by summer_cherry on Sunday 14th of October 2007 11:39:28 PM
Old 10-15-2007
use var in gsub of awk

Hi all,

This problem has cost me half a day, and i still do not know how to do.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks advance.

I want to use a variable as the first parameters of gsub function of awk.

Example:
Code:
{
...
arr[i]=gsub(i,tolower(i),$1)
(which should be ambraced by //)
...
}

 

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