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Old 02-18-2009
Power AWK - compare $0 to regular expression + variable
Hi,

I have this script:
Code:
awk -v va=45 '$0~va{print}' flo2

That returns: "4526745 1234 " (this is the only line of the file "flo2".

However, I would like to get "va" to match the begining of the line, so that is "va" is different than 45 (eg. 67, 12 ...) I would not have any output. That would be something like that:
Code:
awk -v va=45 '$0~/^${va}/{print}' flo2

but that does not work because $va is not a regular expression!

Any suggestion?

Thanks
# 2  
Old 02-18-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by jolecanard
Code:
awk -v va=45 '$0~va{print}' flo2

Should work Smilie
Code:
awk -v va=45 'va==substr($1,1,2)' flo2

# 3  
Old 02-19-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by jolecanard
Hi,

I have this script:
Code:
awk -v va=45 '$0~va{print}' flo2

That returns: "4526745 1234 " (this is the only line of the file "flo2".

However, I would like to get "va" to match the begining of the line, so that is "va" is different than 45 (eg. 67, 12 ...) I would not have any output. That would be something like that:
Code:
awk -v va=45 '$0~/^${va}/{print}' flo2

but that does not work because $va is not a regular expression!
No, that does not work that's not the right way to reference a shell var from within 'awk' - and you had it correct originally.....
Code:
awk -v va=45 '$0 ~ ("^" va){print}' flo2

# 4  
Old 02-20-2009
Another option would be:
Code:
awk -v va="^45" '$0~va{print}' flo2

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