jwp@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeffrey W Percival) (11/26/86)
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! -- Jeff Percival ...!uwvax!uwmacc!sal70!jwp or ...!uwmacc!jwp