Need to print the expansion of the found string (the expansion is beween two delimiters '-' , '||'


 
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Old 10-28-2009
[KRYPTON]/appltgb/test/repc/balaji > awk -v va="u003" '$0 ~ va,/\|\|/ {print }' s.txt
awk: syntax error near line 1
awk: bailing out near line 1


:-(
# 9  
Old 10-28-2009
use "gawk" or "nawk" if available.
# 10  
Old 10-28-2009
Since you don't answer my question I assume this is home work.

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