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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Regex escape special character in AWK if statement Post 302640481 by Chubler_XL on Monday 14th of May 2012 11:12:12 PM
Old 05-15-2012
Either use:

Code:
awk -vW="stringwith[+]'[|]'[+]'50'chars" 'BEGIN {var=""}
    {
      if ($0 ~ W) {
        print "do this"
    } else if ( /anotherString/ ) {
        print "do that"
    } else {
        print "do other"
    } }'

or
Code:
awk 'BEGIN {var=""}
    {
      if ( /stringwith[+]'\''[|]'\''[+]'\''50'\''chars/ ) {
        print "do this"
    } else if ( /anotherString/ ) {
        print "do that"
    } else {
        print "do other"
    } }'

 

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