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

please try this

echo $VAR | grep ClNonZ | awk '{print $3}';

or

echo cat filename | grep ClNonZ | awk '{print $3}';