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awk match substitution using regexp "^" and a variable name
Hi, I want to do a gawk statement were the following is matched but it does not work: variable="partners"; temp="(partners ?x1 ?x2"; if ( temp ~ /^\(/variable/ ?/ ){ print hello; } The following works, so the problem is getting the variable value of "partners" inside the regexp. if (...
