Ron Wuerth wrote:

> Okay Donna,

drum roll, please :-)

> Here's the awk solution
> (thanks again Ken, Jeff & Mark)

(absolutely!)

> KEYVAL is real simple
>
> PARM key=0
> SETVAR KEYVAL 0         #just for testing can get rid of it
> SHOWVAR KEYVAL        #just for testing can get rid of it
>  /bin/awk "-f KVAWK amatch=!key" < DATAFILE
> SHOWVAR KEYVAL        #just for testing can get rid of it

'amatch'??  (where is that in o'reilly's unix cd?  i can't find
it....)

> Here is KVAWK
>
> { key[++j]=$1; val[j]=$2; }
> END {
>     for(i in key) {
>        if (key[i]==amatch) {
>          system("callci SETVAR KEYVAL \\'"val[i]"\\'");
>        }
>     }
> }

ok....i'm lost.  in the first script you're passing in(??)
amatch...then why is it in the awk 'program'?

> HTH

it sure does.  thank you!!           - d

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