Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi ,

I m facing one problem with String usage in AWK . let me put what i need .

i have a function and there i used one string ( meta_string)

function 1 {
...................
...................
meta_string = " this string got some value of 500 characters";
..........
......... }

Now i want to use meta_string value in another function say function 2.

function 2 {

print(meta_string);
...............
.............. };

Now problem is in using meta_string in fucntion 2 when i try printing meta_string its printing empty string .

could you please carify how to use meta_string in function 2 or any is there any other way to handle this sproblem.

Note: As i m using AWK first time :-)

Thanks in advance for your help.

Edit: sorry, after re-reading the thread I realized that it's about a different issue.

Anyway, I cannot reproduce it:

Code:

awk 'BEGIN {
print "calling a:", a()
print "calling b:", b()
}
func b(){ return s }
func a(){ s = "abc"; return s }
'
calling a: abc
calling b: abc

If you post the entire code it would be easier.