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Old 03-06-2013
C['var1'] did not work for me.
I need to print the array value like this C["var1"]
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Old 03-06-2013
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Originally Posted by Jotne
C['var1'] did not work for me.
I need to print the array value like this C["var1"]
My bad.

It did not work because you cannot nest single quotes inside single quotes in the shell; it ends up looking to awk like C[var1], and it treats var1 as a blank variable.

If you put the awk code inside a file, and run it with awk -f, it handles single quotes just fine, but I should have caught that anyway. Bad habit, sorry.
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