Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,
Is there a way to have something working like the read Unix command to stop a awk ask a question and get the result.
I've try system("read a") but it does not work.
Thanks.
Franck.

how 'bout [among others] - using "nawk":

Code:

{
   printf "Enter foo-> "; getline foo < "-";
   printf("line->[%s] foo->[%s]\n", $0, foo);
}

I've try the following (as an exemple):
awk ' BEGIN {
printf "Enter response"
getline name < "-"
print name
}
{ a++ } ' /etc/hosts

But the script does not stop to ask my answer ...
Do I make something wrong ?
Thanks :-)

as I said - use nawk with the above code.

The other way is:

Code:

{
   printf "Enter your name: "
   system("read a; echo $a") | getline name
   print name
}

Thanks for your interest in my problem :-)
However, it's still not working on my AIX machine ... grrrr
awk '
{
print "-> "$0
printf "Enter response :"
system("read a; echo $a") | getline var1
print "-- " var1 "$0 : " $0

} ' ./essai.lst
where essai.lst contains only A B C D letters (one by line).
I receive the following result:
[lou:root:/home/root:] ./essai.sh
-> A
Enter response :A
A
sh: 0: not found
-- $0 : A
-> B
Enter response :B
B
-- $0 : B
-> C

Strange ...

sorry about that.
If you do have nawk - I would use the original solution for nawk.

awk '
BEGIN {
cmd="read a; echo $a"
}
{
print "-> "$0
printf "Enter response :"
cmd | getline var1
close(cmd)
print "-- " var1 "$0 : " $0

} ' ./essai.lst

Thanks a lot for your help, it's working fine and help me a lot.
Franck.