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awk match whole word

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Mar 15, 202619964 views
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Problem

I want to use to match whole words from text file. Including words bounded by non alphanumeric characters. For example - string to search for - ABC Source file - Result -

Error Output

HHHABCCCCH
HHH ABC
HH(ABC)ASDAASD
HH,ABC-ASASDASD

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Fix for: awk match whole word

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If you want to pass "ABC" as a variable instead of hardcoding it, use the matching operator: With gawk (other awks too?) you can use and to denote word boundaries, where a word is a sequence of letters, digits and underscore (I believe), so this wil…

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