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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Logic Explanation of Match command in Linux Post 302605296 by Scrutinizer on Wednesday 7th of March 2012 07:23:33 AM
Old 03-07-2012
This behavior seems to be gawk-only. The other awks I tried display ARE just fine without quotes.
If I use
Code:
awk --posix -F, '$3~011{ print $2 }' file

or
Code:
awk --posix -F , '{if (match($3,011)) { print $2 } }'

then ARE is displayed as well..

Perhaps we should introduce a standard banner on this forum:
if on Solaris use /usr/xpg4/bin/awk. When using gawk, use (g)awk --posix

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IGAWK(1)							 Utility Commands							  IGAWK(1)

NAME
igawk - gawk with include files SYNOPSIS
igawk [ all gawk options ] -f program-file [ -- ] file ... igawk [ all gawk options ] [ -- ] program-text file ... DESCRIPTION
Igawk is a simple shell script that adds the ability to have ``include files'' to gawk(1). AWK programs for igawk are the same as for gawk, except that, in addition, you may have lines like @include getopt.awk in your program to include the file getopt.awk from either the current directory or one of the other directories in the search path. OPTIONS
See gawk(1) for a full description of the AWK language and the options that gawk supports. EXAMPLES
cat << EOF > test.awk @include getopt.awk BEGIN { while (getopt(ARGC, ARGV, "am:q") != -1) ... } EOF igawk -f test.awk SEE ALSO
gawk(1) Effective AWK Programming, Edition 1.0, published by the Free Software Foundation, 1995. AUTHOR
Arnold Robbins (arnold@skeeve.com). Free Software Foundation Nov 3 1999 IGAWK(1)
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