Variable assignment doing weird things!!

[burnettben]

I am trying to assign a variable the value of a field.

I tried to use:

awk 'BEGIN{name="";} { print $3;
name=$3;
print $name; }' file

but what it outputs is the correct field for first print ($3) but then when i assign and then print it assigns the whole line, i am really confused!!!

Anyone got any suggestions!!

Ben

 

[vgersh99]

change
print $name

TO

print name

[BTW, awk != perl]

vlad
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[burnettben]

Well don't i fell like a fool!!!!!

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Thanks man.....