Using a variable in an awk Bourne shell script

Question

I'm trying to write a script that will read the country I type in and then display the people who are from that country. It works fine when I write the code with the country I want in, but when I try to use a variable nothing happens. I've been working on this for hours, so could someone please help me. This is what I have so far.

              echo Please choose a country
              echo
              read country


              awk -F: -v theCountry="$country" '

              BEGIN {

              recordCount = 0
              printf "\t\tPlayers from that country\n\n"
              print theCountry
              }

              /theCountry/{

              print $1
              recordCount++


              }

              END {


              }' playerFile

Where I enter theCountry is where it's messing up.

Ed Morton · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-17 02:52:35Z

2

Change:

/theCountry/{

to:

$0 ~ theCountry {

and read http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/gawk.html#Computed-Regexps

answered Nov 17, 2014 at 2:52

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Frankie Donnadio Over a year ago

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Ed Morton Over a year ago

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