Search using a parsed value

[ranjit]

Hi,

Using the notation: nawk -v VAL=$REGEXP awk.script datafile

can I search the contents of the datafile for the VAL variable. If so, what is the syntax?

$0 ~/VAL/ {print $0}

Surely the above is searching for the string "VAL" ???

 

[feherke]

Hi

gawk -v VAL=$REGEXP '$0~VAL' datafile

Should work with [tt]nawk[/tt] too.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[ranjit]

Thank you Feherke