2.8BSD awk question: Oooh, I get it!
Jeffrey W Percival
jwp at uwmacc.UUCP
Thu Nov 27 06:41:58 AEST 1986
I get it! I answered my own question.
In awk, only fields are referred to with a leading $...
$0 is the whole line, $1 is field 1, and so on.
My variable was called "header", so the correct statement is
print header
not
print $header
I guess $header was being evaluated as $0, so the observed output makes sense.
I guess I get the Emily Litella award for today... Never mind!
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