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Old 02-01-2007
Assign o/p of awk to a variable
Smilie Hi UNIX gurus,

I am facing a typical problem while assigining while assigining output of awk to a variable.

I have a fixed length file say myinputfile.txt

When I allow the value/output of an awk to be redirected to a file, it works fine. i.e.
awk "/^.{232}$acctNum/ { printf(\"%s;Y;Account#\n\",substr(\$0,241,1)) ; exit} " myinputfile.txt >> mylogfile.txt

However, when I try to assign the the value of same to a variable, and then echo the variable, it displays blank.i.e.
myvariable=`awk "/^.{232}$acctNum/ { printf(\"%s;Y;Account#\n\",substr(\$0,241,1)) ; exit} " myinputfile.txt`

Can somebody please help. Smilie
# 2  
Old 02-01-2007
Is this $acctNum a variable or pattern?
# 3  
Old 02-01-2007
It is a variable.
# 4  
Old 02-01-2007
Are you sure that you are getting output from awk command?
can you show your input file?
# 5  
Old 02-01-2007
Only awk is working fine. However, while assigning the same to variable, it is not working.

My Sample Inputfile is as shown below:

MyAdd1 MyAdd2 MyAdd3 MyAdd4 MyAdd5 Sachin Tendulkar 222 222-2222 11111111111111A0000111122223333XYX
YourAdd1 YourAdd2 YourAdd3 YourAdd4 YourAdd5 Rahul Dravid 111 121-5555 22222222222222B0123456789123456XYX

(In above example, spaces are getting truncated in this forum)
Basically, position 233-240 denotes account number. Also, by substring, I am trying to extract 241 character.
# 6  
Old 02-01-2007
Add another backslash before $0
Code:
myvariable=`awk "/^.{232}$acctNum/ { printf(\"%s;Y;Account#\n\",substr(\\$0,241,1)) ; exit} " myinputfile.txt`

# 7  
Old 02-01-2007
Bug Thank You
Hey Thank you anbu Smilie

But I have two question? Smilie
Can you please clearify them.

1. I thought only single slash is required for escaping, then whats the meaning of double slash.

2. Also why doesnt the following one work:
myvariable=`awk '/^.{232}$acctNum/ { printf("%s;Y;Account",substr($0,241,1)) ; exit} ' myinputfile.txt`
In this case we dont even need escaping. Smilie
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