Re: [bug-gawk] [bug report] gawk doesn’t work correctly when assign special value to variable

[Jarno Suni]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 15:55:50 +0800

> 3) Execute following command to see the result
> [root]# gawk -v var="00e1" '$2==var' 1.txt
> 00e1 00e1
> 00e2 00e4
> 
> The second line should not be there. Because "00e4" is NOT equal to
> "00e1" obviously.
> Is it a bug or by design?

I think it is by design. At least mawk works the same way. Shell strips
the double quotes from the command line argument, so gawk sees it as
var=00e1.

> 3. Workaround:
> gawk -v var="00e1" '$2==""var' 1.txt

That is the way to make it string comparison explicitly.

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