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Your last method at the very bottom proved to be useful. Thank you very much for your help :D

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting awk to read a variable with spaces in it.


Input:
vendorName="Bob's Steakhouse"
awk -F":" '$2 ~ /'$vendorName'/ {print $1}' Purchases.dat

Error:
awk: $2 ~...