variables in awk

[Phil Hughes]

In article <10029 at burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, lang at sirius.PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang) writes:
> An AWK question for the resident wizards:
> Is there any way to do pattern-matching on an AWK variable?

You need nawk (the awk shipped with 5.3.2).  You can say:

BEGIN     { junk = "hi" }
$1 ~ junk { print "wow!" }

and it does what you expect (and want)
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