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I just got it to work:
myResult=$(awk -F"\t" -v lookupVal="$luVal" '$1 == lookupVal { print $2 }' "$inputFile")

I had to use "\t" for the tab character syntax.

Thanks for all your help.
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I did in fact, read the man pages and online examples, but there were so many differences to approach and syntax that I just got pretty mixed up.

Thanks for your assistance.

Because I'm a noob. by all means tell me how I ought to be doing it, I want to learn.

OK, so I am trying to use awk as a method of accessing a table stored in a file to then provide the capability of a look up table.

The table is stored in a file named...