using awk with column value conditions

Question

I\'m learning awk from The AWK Programming Language and I have a problem with one of the examples.

If I wanted to print $3 if $2 is equal to a value (e.g.1

Answer 1

If you're looking for a particular string, put quotes around it:

awk '$1 == "findtext" {print $3}'

Otherwise, awk will assume it's a variable name.